These peasants are wild
Q: What Estate were the peasants part of during the French Revolution?
A: The Third Estate.
What Estate paid almost all the taxes in France?
The Third Estate.
This queen was criticised for spending too much money... and basically everything she did.
Who is Marie Antoinette.
What major political mistake did Louis XVI make after the Tennis Court Oath that convinced people he couldn’t be trusted?
Attempting to flee France (Flight to Varennes).
The country that Marie Antoinette was from.
What is Austria?
Q: What basic food shortage made peasants extremely angry before 1789?
A: Bread (caused by poor harvests).
What social issue caused anger among ordinary people?
Inequality between the Estates.
make sure you get the number right!!!!
Who is Louis XIV
A brisk walk from Paris to the palace....
What is the March on Versailles?
What major right did the Declaration say citizens have if the government abuses power?
The right to resist oppression.
What was the name of the peasant panic in 1789 where peasants attacked NOBLE houses?
The Great Fear.
What Enlightenment idea challenged the King’s absolute power?
the idea that people should have power.
This enlightenment thinker said that people have natural rights
Who is John Locke?
This meeting was not productive among the estates...
What is the estates general?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
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what is a carriage driver?
What unfair system forced peasants to pay taxes to nobles, the Church, and the King?
A: The feudal system.
What event pushed bread prices so high that riots began?
The 1788–89 poor harvests.
He was once against the use of the guillotine, two years later he is leading the Reign of Terror and sending thousands to their deaths by it.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
What did the Third Estate rename itself after the Tennis Court Oath?
What is the National Assembly?
This fungus made peasants go crazy in 1789.
What is ergot?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
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What is the bible?
The end of this era or "age" helped create even more frustration with the monarchy. This "age" was also brought down by weak kings such as the last king Louis.
What is the age of Absolutism?
Who was the finance minister fired for wanting tax reform, angering the nobles and king?
Who is Jacques Necker?
A national holiday in France, once remembered for this patriotic event.
What is the storming of the Bastille?
What are the two types of nobility?
What are nobles of the sword and nobles of the robe?