French Revolution

FRENCH REVOLUTION
1. In 1774, Louis XVI of the Bourbon family of Kings ascended the throne
of ________.
2. What was newly elected assembly called?
3. The burden of financial activities of state during the Old Regime was
borne by the_____ .
4. In France, the eighteenth century witnessed the emergence of a social
group, termed as the ________ .
5. The American constitution and its guarantee of individual rights was an
important example for political thinkers in ________ .
6. The agitated crowd stormed and destroyed the Bastille on ________ .
7. The constitution of 1791 vested the power to make laws in the ________ .
8. The constitution began with a Declaration of the rights of ________ .
9. The National Assembly of France voted in April 1792 to declare war
against _______
10.Who introduced Reign of Terror and where?
11.The members of the Jacobin Club belonged mainly to ________ .
12.When was slavery finally abolished in French colonies?
13.One important law that came into effect soon after the storming of the
Bastille in 1789 was the ________ .
14.In 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself as Emperor of the
________ .
15.What was ‘Sceptre’?
16.The political body representing the three estates of pre-revolutionary
France was known as ________ .
17.Which theory was proposed by Montesquieu?
18.Who proposed the Social Contract theory?
19.A triangular slave trade started among ________ .
20.Women in France won the right to vote in ________ .
21.What did the French Revolution of 1789 stand for?
22.What did the fall of Bastille signify?
23.Name the special tax levied by the church on peasants.
24.On what principle was voting conducted in the Estates General?
25.What is a Guillotine?
26.What idea did the ‘Law Tablet Convey’?
27.Who was the leader of the Jacobin club?
28.What was the Estates General?
29.Who were denied entry to the assembly of the Estates General, called by
Louis XVI on 5 May, 1789?
30.Why were images and symbols used in the eighteenth-century France?
31.Why did the people of France storm the Bastille?
32.Why was the Bastille hated by all?
33.What was the Bastille? What happened to it?
34.What was the issue most French people were protested against?
35.The French society in the eighteenth century was divided into three
estates. Name them.
36.What do you mean by the term Old Regime?
37.Who owned about 60 percent of the land in France?
38.What privileges were enjoyed by the clergy and the nobility by birth?
39.What services did the peasants render to the lord?
40.Name the taxes that all members of the third estate had to pay to the state.
41.What led to a rapid increase in the demand for food grains in 1789?
42.Why were peasants and workers not successful in bringing about a
change in the French social and economic order?
43.What did the educated section of the third estate believe?
44.Which doctrine was refuted by John Locke in his ‘Two Treatises of
Government’!
45.What idea did Rousseau propose?
46.What idea did Montesquieu propose in his book ‘The Spirit of the Laws’!
47.What was the main object of the Constitution of 1791?
48.What made France a Constitutional Monarchy in 1791?
49.Who were considered passive citizens under the Constitution of 1791?
50.Who was eligible for an elector and then for a member of the National
Assembly?
51.Which rights were established as ‘natural and inalienable’ rights by the
constitution in 1791?
52.Mention one drawback of the Constitution of 1791.
53.Who joined the Jacobin club?
54.Which law came into effect soon after the storming of the Bastille in
1789?
55.When and where was Napoleon Bonaparte defeated?
56.Name the continents which were associated with the triangular slave
trade.
57.Who reintroduced slavery in 1804?
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1. On which day was Paris on alarm?
2. Whom did the king command to move into the city?
3. What rumour spread in Paris?
4. How many people gathered in front of the town hall?
5. Why did they break into a number of government buildings?
6. Why did a group of several hundred people storm the fortress-prison
Bastille?
7. How many prisoners were there in Bastille?
8. Why was Bastille hated by all?
9. Who bought the stone fragments of Bastille?.
10. Who became the king of France in 1774?
11. Which family did the king Louis XVI belong to?
12. At what age did Louis XVI become the king of France?
13. Who was Louis XVI married to?
14. Upon his accession, what did he find?
15. Whom did France help under Louis XVI to gain their independence?
16. What do you mean by the term Old Regime?
17. How many peasants were there in France?
18. What do you mean by the term “tithes”?
19. Who were the members of the first two estates?
20. What was the direct tax called?
21. Who had the burden of taxes of the state?
22. What services were the peasants obliged to render to the lord?
23. What was the population of France in 1715?
24. What was the population of France in 1789?
25. What was the staple food of the people of France?
26. What is Subsistence Crisis?
27. What idea did the philosopher John Locke give?
28. What idea did the philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau give?
29. What idea did Montesquieu give?
30. Where were the ideas of the philosophers discussed?
31. Why could the king not pass the proposal for new taxes alone?
32. When was the last time meeting of the estates general called?
33. When did Louis XVI call the meeting of the Estates General?
34. Where were the delegates hosted?
35. How many representatives did the first and the second estates send?
36. How were the representatives of the first and the second estates seating in
the assembly?
37. How many members were sent by the third estate?
38. Who were standing at the back in the assembly?.
39. Who represented the third estate?
40. Who were denied entry to the assembly?
41. How many letters had the representatives of the third estate brought with
themselves?
42. On which principle had the estates general voted in the past?
43. What did the third estate demand?
44. What happened when the king rejected the proposal of the third estate?
45. How did the representatives view themselves?
46. When and where did they assemble?.
47. What did the newly declared National Assembly swear?
48. Who led them?
49. Who was Mirabeau?
50. What did Mirabeau do?
51. Who was Abbe Sieyes?
52. What was “What is the third estate”?
53. Where was the National Assembly Busy?
54. What had meant a bad harvest?
55. What did the crowds of angry women do after spending hours in long
queues?
56. When and by whom was the fortress prison Bastille stormed?
57. What rumour spread in the countryside from village to village?
58. Who were caught in a frenzy of fear?
59. What did the peasants do in a frenzy of fear?.
60. What did the peasants loot?
61. What did the peasants burn?
62. What did the nobles do when the peasants attacked Chateaux?
63. What did Louis XVI finally do?
64. How did the Assembly abolish the feudal system of obligation and taxes?
65. Members of which estate were forced to give up their privileges?
66. Whose lands were confiscated?
67. When did the National Assembly complete the draft constitution?
68. What was the main purpose of the constitution?.
69. Who were now assigned the powers instead of being concentrated in one
hand?
70. How did France become a constitutional monarchy?
71. Who had the right to choose the National Assembly?

72. Who were Active Citizens?
73. Who were Passive Citizens?
74. What was the eligibility to qualify as an elector and then as a member of the
National Assembly?
75. With what did the constitution of France begin?
76. What were established as “Natural & Inalienable” rights?
77. Who had to protect each citizen’s natural rights?
78. What does the broken chain stand for?.
79. What does ‘The bundle of rods of fasces’ mean?
80. What do you mean by ‘The eye within a triangle radiating light’?
81. What is sceptre?
82. What do you mean by “Snake biting its tail to form a ring”?
83. What do you mean by “Red Phrygian Cap”?
84. What are the National Colours of France?
85. What do you mean by “Law Tablet”?
86. What did Louis XVI do after signing the constitution?
87. Against whom did the National Assembly declare war?.
88. When did the National Assembly declare war against Prussia & Austria?
89. Why were the rulers of other neighbouring countries worried by the
developments in France?
90. What had the kings of the neighbouring countries planned?
91. Who composed the song “Marseillaise”?
92. Who sang Marseillaise for the first time?
93. What is the National Anthem of France?
94. What were the women doing while the men were away fighting at the front?
95. What was the problem with the constitution of France?
96. What were the important rallying points?
97. Which was the most successful political club?
98. How did the Jacobin Club get its name?
99. What were the women doing throughout the period?
100. Who were the members of the Jacobin Club?
101. Who was the leader of the Jacobin Club?
102. What did the Jacobins start wearing?
103. What were the Jacobins known as/called?
104. What did the sans-culottes men wear in addition?
105. What were the women not allowed to wear?
106. What happened in the palace of Tuileries?
107. What happened to the royal family?
108. What was the newly elected assembly called?
109. When was France declared a republic?
110. What do you mean by a republic?
111. What punishment was given to Louis XVI?
112. Where and when was Louis XVI executed?
113. Which period is referred to as the reign of terror?
114. What was Robespierre’s policy?
115. Whom did Robespierre see as being ‘enemies’ of the republic?
116. What happened to those whom Robespierre saw as being enemies of the
republic?
117. What was guillotine?
118. Who invented guillotine?
119. How did guillotine get its name?
120. What were peasants forced to do?

121. What was forbidden to eat?
122. What were all the citizens required to eat?
123. How else was equality sought to be practiced?
124. Instead of traditional address what were all French men & women called
henceforth?
125. What were the buildings of the churches converted into?
126. What did the supporters of Robespierre begin demanding?
127. When and why was Robespierre arrested?
128. Who got the opportunity to seize power after the fall of the Jacobin
Government?
129. When were the non-propertied sections of society once again denied the
right to vote?
130. How many legislative councils were provided in the new constitution?
131. Who elected the directory?
132. What was directory?
133. What was the reason of the directory to be instable?
134. What paved the way for the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte?
135. How can you say that women were active during the revolution?
136. What did most women of the third estate do?
137. What was the hope of the women involved in the revolution?
138. What did the women work as?
139. What did most women lack?
140. Whose daughters could study at a convent?
141. What was the condition of the working women?
142. Why did women start their own political clubs and newspaper?
143. How many woman’s clubs came up in different French cities?
144. Which was the most famous women’s club?
145. What was the main demand of the women?
146. Why were the women disappointed by the Constitution of 1791?
147. What were the demands of the women?
148. What was compulsory for all girls?
149. Who tried to improve the lives of women?
150. What could girls no longer be forced to do?
151. Which law was issued about marriage?
152. Who could apply for divorce now?
153. What things could women do now?
154. When were the women’s clubs closed?
155. What was the condition of the prominent women during the reign of terror?
156. How long did women’s movements for voting rights and equal wages
continue?
157. How was the fight for vote carried?
158. Why was the example of the political activities of the French women kept
alive?
159. In which year did the women of France win the right to vote?
160. Name any one most revolutionary social reform of the Jacobin Regime?
161. Who were the important suppliers of commodities such as tobacco, indigo,
sugar and coffee?
162. Why was there a shortage of labour on the plantations?
163. When did the slave trade begin?
164. What do you mean by the triangular slave trade?
165. Where did the French merchants buy slaves?
166. How did the French merchants bring slaves to the Caribbean?
167. Who bought the slaves from the French merchants in the Caribbean?
168. How was the growing demand in European markets for sugar, coffee and
indigo met?
169. What was the importance of slave trade for port cities like Bordeaux and
Nantes?
170. What did the National Assembly do to abolish slavery?

171. When were the slaves in the French overseas possessions freed?
172. Who reintroduced slavery in France?
173. How did the plantation owners understand their freedom?
174. When was slavery finally abolished in French colonies?
175. Who passed laws to translate the ideals of liberty and equality into
everyday practice?
176. Name any one important law that came into effect soon after the storming
of Bastille?
177. What was proclaimed to be a natural right?
178. What do you mean by the “Freedom of Press”?
179. What attracted a large number of people?
180. When did Napoleon Bonaparte crown himself emperor of France?
181. What did Napoleon Bonaparte set out to conquer?
182. What did Napoleon see his role as?
183. Name some laws introduced by Napoleon?
184. What was Napoleon seen as?
185. What was the Napoleonic Armies come to be viewed as?
186. When and where was Napoleon defeated?
187. Which revolutionary ideas of Napoleon had a long effect?
188. What were the most important legacy of the French Revolution?
189. Name the two individuals of India who responded to the ideas coming
from revolutionary France?

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FRENCH REVOLUTION

71. Who had the right to choose the National Assembly?

120. What were peasants forced to do?

170. What did the National Assembly do to abolish slavery?

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