World History: Quiz on the French Revolution

Chapter 6 sections 1 & 2

Friday, December 6th World History: Quiz on the French Revolution What was the Ancien Regime? The name for the old order of French society

What is deficit spending? When a government spends more money than it takes in.

What is a cahier? A notebook listing grievances prepared by the three estates at the Estates General meeting. Who was Olympe de Gouges? A French journalist who spoke out in favor of womens rights by writing The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen. Who was Marie Antoinette? Known as Madame Deficit, lived a life of great pleasure and extravagance at Versailles. Who was Marquis de Lafayette? Aristocratic hero of two worlds who headed the National Guard and was the first to don the tricolor Who made up the Three Estates? First Estate: clergy

Second Estate: nobles

Third Estate: bourgeoisies, peasants, etc. (EVERYONE ELSE IN FRANCE) Why was France in an economic crisis in the 1780s? What was the Tennis Court Oath? Why did the revolutionaries storm the Bastille? True or False: Did Louis XVI resist the ideas of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen? What kind of government did the Constitution of 1791 set up? How did European monarchs and nobles feel about the French Revolution? How did the National Assembly hope to pay off the national debt? Who were the Sans-culottes? Who were the Jacobins?