Class 9 History CH 1 French Revolution

HISTORY
CHAPTER -1 THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
Time-line creation:
Students will create time-line of French Revolution based on the following important dates:
1774 -
1789 -
1791-
1792 -
1793 -
1793-94 -
1804 -
1815 -
1848 -
1946 –
Who am I? (Identify the important personalities related to French Revolution based on the
following points):
1. I was the leader of the Jacobins. The period I ruled was known as Reign of Terror.
2. I was the moderniser of Europe. I have introduced laws for protection of private property and a
uniform system of weight and measures.
3. I protested against the Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen as they excluded women and
wrote the Declaration of Rights of Woman and Citizen.
4. I ascended the throne of France in 1774 and called for the meeting of Estates General in 1789.
5. I proposed the division of power within the government between the legislative, the executive and
the judiciary in my book The Spirit of the Laws.
6. I proposed a form of government based on a social contract between people and their
representatives.
Match the column:

Column A Column B
1. First Estate a. Without knee breeches
2. Livre b. Stately residence of king or nobleman
3. Tithe and Taille c. Betrayal of one’s country or government
4. Chateau d. Currency of France till 1794
5. Sans-culottes e. A ruler who cares a little for the welfare of the
people
6. Guillotine f. Symbol of royal power
7. Sceptre g. an extreme situation where the basic means
of livelihood are endangered
8. Treason h. Device for beheading a person
9.Despotic ruler i. Clergy
10. Subsistence Crisis j. Taxes paid by Third Estate
Give Reason:
1. Bastille prison attacked.
2. The French government increases the taxes.
3. Peasants and workers in France participated actively in the revolt.
4. Executive body like Directory was introduced after the fall of the Jacobin government.
5. The exploitation of slave labour was done.
6. The directory was removed from France.
7. The political clubs were formed in France.
Very Short Answer Type Questions:
1. What did the French Revolution of 1789 stand for?
2. What was the immediate cause of rioting in Paris?
3. What activity of the French monarchy hastened the revolution?
4. How did the American War of Independence add more debt to France?
5. What was the most important privilege enjoyed by the first two estates?
6. What were the feudal privileges?
7. Where and when the ideas of division of power within government come into effect?
8. Which news enraged the system of privileges in eighteenth century France?
9. Which proposal of the third estate was refused by King Louis XVI?
10. What made France a constitutional monarch?
11. Which document was in the beginning of the French constitution?
12. Who were the members of the Jacobin Club?
13. What was Directory?
14. How did Napoleon Bonaparte come to power?
15. What was the status of education among women during the French revolution?
16. What was the most revolutionary reform of the Jacobin regime?
17. List four commodities supplied by the French colonies in the Caribbean.
18. How was Napoleon's image taken up by the people? What image came later?
19. Against whom did Robespierre follow the policy of severe control and punishment?
20. Name them:
i. The estate that paid taxes out of all-
ii. One who owned the majority of land in 18th century France-
iii. The estate which enjoyed the feudal privileges-
iv. The social group that emerged in France in the 18th century-
v. The form of government that was proposed by Jean Jacques Rousseau-
vi. The section of the French society which got political rights by the constitution of 1791-
vii. Jacobins Club got its name from-
viii. The leader of Jacobins Club-
ix. The three continents between whom the slave trade carried out-
x. The ports of France from where the slave trade was carried out.
Short answer type:
1. Which types of taxes were levied by the states?
2. What step was taken by the third estate when their demand was refused?
3. What was an estate general? Why was the meeting of the Estate General called in France during
the Old Regime?
4. What was the decree of the National Assembly of 1789? What was the objective of the National
Assembly’s draft completed in 1791?
5. What was Marseillaise? Who composed it? Who was the first to sing this Patriotic song?
Long answer type:
1. How was society divided before the French Revolution?
2. What were the causes for the struggle of survival or the Subsistence Crisis?
3. List out the events/incidents which led to the outbreak of the French Revolution.
Activity:
List down the political symbols of France. (Pg-12-13)
Map Skills:
Four items A, B, C and D are shown on the outline map of France. Identify these items with the
help of following information and write their correct names on the lines marked on the map:
A. A place where the fortress-prison was stormed by the people in 1789.
B. A port of France related to slave trade.
C. The National Anthem of France got its name from the name of this place.
D. Center of peasant’s panic movement.

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CHAPTER -1 THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

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