Crash Course: French Revolution
Extra Credit Questions:
Answer the following questions on your own sheet of paper:
1. Who didn't pay taxes?
2. How much was Louis XVI spending on the national debt?
3. What are the 3 estates?
4. Why did the 3rd Estate leave?
5. On what date did the commoners seize the Bastille?
6. What was declared on August 26th, 1789?
7. What happened that October that led to women storming the palace?
8. To most people, what was the revolution about?
9. Which radical group wanted a democratic republic?
10. Which Holy Roman Emperor, also brother of Marie Antoinette, disliked the revolution?
11. Which country joined him against the French?
12. By how many votes did they decide to sentence the king to die?
13. Who invented the guillotine?
14. When was the last execution in France?
15. Who led the Committee of Public Safety?
16. What corporal helped France to win wars against Britain and Austria?
17. Who took control of France after the revolution?
18. How did the revolution succeed?
19. How did it fail?
20. How was it different from the American Revolution?
**Turn these into me tomorrow**
1. Who didn't pay taxes?
2. How much was Louis XVI spending on the national debt?
3. What are the 3 estates?
4. Why did the 3rd Estate leave?
5. On what date did the commoners seize the Bastille?
6. What was declared on August 26th, 1789?
7. What happened that October that led to women storming the palace?
8. To most people, what was the revolution about?
9. Which radical group wanted a democratic republic?
10. Which Holy Roman Emperor, also brother of Marie Antoinette, disliked the revolution?
11. Which country joined him against the French?
12. By how many votes did they decide to sentence the king to die?
13. Who invented the guillotine?
14. When was the last execution in France?
15. Who led the Committee of Public Safety?
16. What corporal helped France to win wars against Britain and Austria?
17. Who took control of France after the revolution?
18. How did the revolution succeed?
19. How did it fail?
20. How was it different from the American Revolution?
**Turn these into me tomorrow**