French Revolution

Use the slides to learn about the French Revolution and complete your notes.

Questions to answer on your handout:

1. Define “Age of Enlightenment”

2. Match up each Estate with its description by drawing a line from the letter to the correct number:

3. What are the three reasons why the people of France hate their king and queen?

4. Which Enlightenment thinker did you go visit? (circle one)

5. What did he think about the powers of government?

6. What did he think about the rights of the governed (the people)?

7. What is at least one reason why the Storming of the Bastille happened?

8. France planned their revolution based on a different country’s revolution that happened in 1776. What country have you studied that revolted against a king in 1776?

9. Fill in what’s missing from the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen: “The aim of every political association is the preservation of the ______________________________________________. These rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression. The _____________________ ____________________________________ is one of the most precious of the rights of man… [All societies must] guarantee of the rights [and] the ___________________________________________.”

10. Compare the Declaration with your answers from 5 & 6. What looks similar from the Enlightenment thinker you visited?

11. How are the American and French Revolutions similar?

12. What was used to execute prisoners during the “Reign of Terror”?