The 1789 Revolution

History

What was the name of the important meeting where Louis XVI hoped to make decisions about how France should deal with its debt and taxation problems?

Writing the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen

Which of the following events was led by the sans culottes of Paris?

A country ruled by a monarch and a parliament

A system of government where a President rather than a monarch rules

The rules which decide how a country should be governed

Which of the following became a slogan of the French revolutionaries?

Which of the following events was led by bourgeois representatives of the Third Estate?

Which of the following were the three Estates in eighteenth century France?

What was the name of France's monarch in 1789?

What was the name of the prison where critics of the French government could be sent without a trial?

People who inherited their wealth and power (also known as the nobility).

People who worked for the Church (also known as the clergy).

Poor urban workers also known as the sans culottes.

The new wealthy middle class also known as the bourgeoisie.

The Enlightenment created new social groups like the sans culottes.

The Enlightenment increased France's debt.

The Enlightenment made the peasants so poor they could not afford to pay tax.

The Enlightenment provided new ideas about how to criticise the French government.

Which of the following is a reason why the Enlightenment might have contributed to making 1789 a crisis year for Louis XVI?