The Three Estates
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100

Which of the Three Estates could be described as "those who fight"?

What is the Second Estate?

100

This infamous queen and wife of King Louis XVI was called by the Parisians "Madame Deficit"

Who is Marie Antoinette?

100

This is the city where the French royal family had lived since the reign of Louis XVI.

What is Versailles?

100
France's financial contribution to this war contributed to the enormous debt that it faced.

What is the American Revolution?

100

This picture is of the elaborate palace built by King Louis XIV. What is it called?


What is Versailles?

200
Which of the Three Estate could be described as "those who work"?

What is the Third Estate?

200

Marie Antoinette brother ruled the _________ ___________ _____________.

What is the Holy Roman Empire?

200
Once the French Revolution began, the royal family was forced to move back to ______________.

What is Paris?

200

French people celebrate their Independence day on July 14th. What happened on July 14th, 1789?

What is the storming of the Bastille?

200

This castle, used a prison for political enemies of the monarchy, symbolized the Ancien Regime in France. What is its name?


What is the Bastille?

300

Which of the Three Estates could be described as "those who pray"?

What is the First Estate?

300

This is what we call the people (mostly nobility) who left France during the French Revolution to live in other countries.

What are emigres? 

300

The French people never completely trusted Marie Antoinette because she was born in _____________ and not France.

What is Austria?

300

This picture depicts the ____________ ___________ Oath, when the Third Estate refused to leave a room in Versailles until their concerns had been addressed.


What is the Tennis Court Oath?

300

In the following comic, which of the following figures would represent the Third Estate? (left, middle, right?)


What is the one on the left?

400

By 1789, French workers were paying 75% of their total income to buy __________________.

What is bread?

400

Fill in the blank of this quote from Joseph Sieyes, a supporter of the Revolution, in 1789:

What is the third estate? –Everything.

What, until now, has it been in the existing political order? –Nothing.

What does it want to be? –_________________.”

What is something?

400
Name ONE of the countries that King Louis XVI invited to join the war against Revolutionary France.

What is Austria or Prussia?

400

In 1789, the French Revolutionaries wrote their own declaration. What was its title?

What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
400

This French general fought both in the American Revolution and the French Revolution. n.

Who is the Marquis de Lafayette?

500

Which of the Three Estates owned made up only 2% of the population, but owned 25% of the land in France.

What is the Second Estate?

500

The finance minister of France  Jacques __________was fired and rehired by King Louis XVI multiple times.

Who was Jacques Necker?

500

This is the name of the palace in Paris where the French royal family lived before they moved to Versailles.

What is the Tuileries palace?

500

The National Assembly was established when the ______________ ________________ proclaimed itself the sole voice of the French People.

What is the Third Estate?

500

Name and SPELL this palace, built by King Louis XIV.


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