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Getting to Know Louis
King Louis and the French Revolution
18th Century France and The Age of Enlightenment
OTHER
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What did King Louis hate most?
Disasters about other people
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When did the French Revolution start and end?
1789-1804
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What was the Age of Enlightenment?
a period marked by a lot of social change
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What was the Estates-General
a person with the purpose of drafting a new tax policy
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What did King Louis do for fun?
Pull pranks on his pages
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What was the main reason the French Revolution started?
The clergy, kings, and nobles didn't have to pay taxes, this got people mad
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BONUS!!TRUE OR FALSE: The American Revolution proved to a lot of people democracy was a bad idea +300
FALSE
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TRUE OR FALSE: Commoners were also know as the representatives from the third estate and were mostly lawyers
TRUE
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TRUE OR FALSE: King Louis was a clumsy man
TRUE
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BONUS!!Why did the French Revolution end? +400
It ended because Napoleon declared himself emperor
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Which 2 people wrote about the importance of freedom and human rights?
Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Who decided that they were not going to listen to King Louis anymore?
Commoners, Nobles, and Clergy
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BONUS!!Who was King Louis married to? +!00
Marie Antoinette
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What happened in 1788?
the treasury was empty and bad weather and widespread
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What approached the business of government in a rational, scientific way?
Advances in science and mathematics
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What was the Tennis Court Oath?
all members of the assembly declared they would stay together until they wrote a new constitution for France
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TRUE OR FALSE: King Louis was a greedy man who only cared about himself.
FALSE
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What was another main reason the French Revolution started?
serious money problems
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Where did all the state power lay on?
King, Nobles, and Clergy
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What was the Reign of Terror?
Extremists taking over and executing everyone that disagreed with them