World History 02_French Revolution Movie Questions

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French Revolution Movie Questions

  1. Who lived in Versailles?
  2. Why did Marie Antoinette and Louis get married?
  3. How old were they?
  4. How old was Louis 16th (XVI) when he becomes King?
  5. What was the 18th century movement that challenged people to use reason to think things through for themselves?
  1. What Enlightenment idea threatens the upper class?
  2. The French involvement in what war contributes to France becoming bankrupt?
  3. What is Marie-Antoinette obsessed with?
  4. Due to poor harvests, what is there a shortage of in France?
  5. Who pays more taxes, the poor or the nobles?
  6. You would have to work a month to eventually buy what in France?
  7. What group of people met for the first time in over 100 years as France’s economy crumbled?
  1. Fill in the column for what percentage of the population each estate (social class) made up in Pre-Revolutionary France:

Estate / Who / % of Population / % of income to taxes / votes in
Estates-General
1st / Clergy / 2% / 1
2nd / Nobles / 0 / 1
3rd / Everyone else
(bourgeoisie-“middle class,” workers, peasants) / 50% /
1
  1. Robespierre belonged to what estate?
  2. Where do the deputies of the 3rd estate meet after being locked out of the Estates-General?
  1. The deputies of the 3rd estate called themselves what?
  2. What happened on July 14, 1789?
  1. What French document stated that all men were created equal, abolished estates, gave power to the National Assembly, provided for justice under reasonable law, a constitutional monarchy, and freedom of the press?
  1. Why were women protesting?
  1. Who did they take their protest to?
  2. What do the 20,000 to 60,000 people outside Versailles force the King and Queen to do?
  1. Who has power in a constitutional monarchy?
  2. To where do the King and Queen try to escape?
  3. Does the escape plan work?
  4. What French person calls for liberty, equality, fraternity, universal suffrage (right to vote), no death penalty, and an end to slavery within the colonies?
  1. What was invented as a more humane way to execute?
  2. What country does France invade because France is nervous this country will attack them in an attempt to put Louis and Marie-Antoinette back on the throne?
  1. What do the sans-culottes do that angers others?
  2. Who will guide the country after the massacre of the prisoners?
  3. Who is killed on January 21, 1793 by the guillotine?
  4. How does Robespierre hope to save France?
  1. What do you have to do to be turned in during the Reign of Terror?
  1. What does Robespierre create to get rid of the influence of the Catholic Church?
  2. Who helps defeat France’s foreign enemies?
  3. What happens during the “Great Terror?”
  4. What does Robespierre do to make even his supporters think he’s crazy?
  5. Who was guillotined on July 27, 1794?
  6. Who takes power 5 years after Robespierre?