Causes of the French Revolution Close Reading

Read the selection carefully before you answer the questions. On a separate sheet of paper, answer each question with as much detail as necessary for a complete answer. Do not simply work for the easiest answer. Your responsibility is to write COMPLETE answers. Incomplete answers will receive no credit. That means that if your response is missing part of the answer, you will receive no credit. Each question is worth 2 points for a total of 60. Keep in mind that academic expectations are very high at Folsom. Remember, why is always implied in the question. Answer the why if there is one.

1.What is the main reason for the French Revolution?

2.Identify the three estates.

3.Who made up the majority of the population?

4-9List the six (6) privileges the packet mentioned the first and second estates enjoyed that the third estate did not?

10.The Third Estate made up what percent of the population? Break it down.

11.Nobles had almost complete authority over which group? .

12.What method did the Kings use to dispense their rule?

13.What power did the King have that he hadn’t exercised in exactly 174 years?

14.How does the following definition relate to your homework? “Reduced to a state of financial ruin, impoverished, broken, ruined, exhausted of valuable qualities, destitute.”

15.What activity did France participate in that led them to the above definition?

16.So, where did all the money go, what were the Royals doing?

17.Why was the tax system corrupt?

18.What did Louis XVI want the First and Second Estate to do to solve the economic crisis?

19.What caused the food prices to rise in France? (get all of it)

20.List the three effects of the food prices going up.

21.Draw a Graph that demonstrates why the food prices went up.

When Louis XVI called the Estates General, what did the following hope for?

22.The King

23.The First and Second Estates

24.The Middle Classes

25.The Peasants

26.Describe how the Estates General was divided.

27.Explain who was in control of the meeting of the Estates General? You’ll have to think about this one.

28.Members of the Third Estate voted to transform themselves into what?

29.What was the Tennis Court Oath? No more, and no less.

30.What was the result of the Oath?