Q4 The Causes of the French Revolution

There were new ideas spreading in the 1700s. (The Enlightenment) People are born equal, people have rights

The French Revolutions had only one simple cause: the king

The First Estate was made up of which category of people?

Which group was not required to pay taxes

What contributed to France's Financial crisis

How did King Louis XVI die

Who were the "sans-culottes"?

In the 1700s the cost of living was declining fast and wages remained low.

'The Middle Class' in French language is known as:

The military help towards the American Revolution pushed France in financial debt

What is another definition of 'Old Regime'

France fought costly wars with which other European super power

The French fought the British in 1783 helping whom?

If you were not clergy or noble you belonged to which group in pre-revolutionary France

What symbol of the old regime was stormed symbolising the beginning of the French Revolution

The king and the queen, were not fully aware of what happened in France. The lived in a gilded palace in Versailles.

In which estate would you find the nobility?

Meeting of all three Estates where Louis XVI hoped for an increase in taxes

What was Marie Antoniette fate?

'The poor in the countryside did not share the same problems as the poor in the towns'.

What social group made up the vast majority of the French society

The middle-classes had grown rich, but was resentful because they had no _______ compared with the first two estates

The middle class

Leading causes of a revolution:

Which social class was required to pay taxes

Who was the Monarch in charge of France at the onset of the revolution?