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CLASS9 · Socialscience · French Revolution YearRead the answer and worked solution →French Revolution — order these events chronologicallyRead the answer and worked solution →The Bastille was stormed on which date?Read the answer and worked solution →How many people gathered to form a peoples' militia?Read the answer and worked solution →What did the crowd hope to find inside the Bastille?Read the answer and worked solution →The Bastille was hated because it stood for the king's:Read the answer and worked solution →Most people rioting after the Bastille fell were protesting the price of:Read the answer and worked solution →Louis XVI ascended the throne of France in:Read the answer and worked solution →Louis XVI was married to a princess from:Read the answer and worked solution →On his accession Louis XVI found the treasury:Read the answer and worked solution →France helped which colonies gain independence from Britain?Read the answer and worked solution →Lenders to the French state charged interest at:Read the answer and worked solution →French society before 1789 was divided into how many estates?Read the answer and worked solution →The society and institutions of France before 1789 are called the:Read the answer and worked solution →Peasants made up roughly what share of the French population?Read the answer and worked solution →What share of the land was owned by nobles, the Church and the rich?Read the answer and worked solution →The chief privilege of the clergy and nobility was exemption from:Read the answer and worked solution →The tax the Church extracted from peasants was called:Read the answer and worked solution →The direct tax paid by the third estate to the state was:Read the answer and worked solution →Which thinker wrote Two Treatises of Government?Read the answer and worked solution →Which thinker wrote The Spirit of the Laws?Read the answer and worked solution →Louis XVI called the Estates General on:Read the answer and worked solution →Which book by Rousseau inspired the demand for voting by head?Read the answer and worked solution →The third estate representatives were led by Abbe Sieyes and:Read the answer and worked solution →The National Assembly completed the draft constitution in:Read the answer and worked solution →The 1791 constitution made France a:Read the answer and worked solution →Under the 1791 constitution, about how many were active citizens?Read the answer and worked solution →Citizens with no voting rights were called:Read the answer and worked solution →The Jacobin club took its name from a former:Read the answer and worked solution →Who led the large group among the Jacobins?Read the answer and worked solution →

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CLASS9 · Socialscience · French Revolution Year

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Matching pairs
  1. Left
    Storming of the Bastille
    Right
    1789
  2. Left
    Declaration of Rights of Man
    Right
    1789
  3. Left
    Execution of Louis XVI
    Right
    1793
Instructions
Match each event of the French Revolution to its year.

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French Revolution — order these events chronologically

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Steps
  1. Estates-General convenes (May 1789)
  2. Storming of the Bastille (14 July 1789)
  3. Declaration of the Rights of Man (Aug 1789)
  4. Execution of King Louis XVI (Jan 1793)
  5. Rise of Napoleon as Consul (1799)

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The Bastille was stormed on which date?

  1. 14 July 1789
  2. 14 June 1789
  3. 14 July 1798
  4. 14 June 1798
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Correct answer: A. 14 July 1789

1. Paris was in alarm that morning. 2. The king had ordered troops into the city. 3. The fortress fell on 14 July 1789. _Source: syllabus Social Science, 'India and the Contemporary World I', Ch 1 'The French Revolution'_

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