French Revolution by Tuesday, DBQ test over Holiday

We are just sliding into the French Revolution and will have a test on next Tuesday, December 18th.  Students will also be given a 100 pt. take home exam on DBQ interpretation.  They should really enjoy the test.  It is self contained with the documents included in the text of the test.

As promised here's the guide for the multiple choice 50 point French Revolution test.

French Revolution Test Guide

Not all questions are on this quide, but many are.  Numbers DO NOT correspond with numbers on the test.  For some of these items below, I have given you the actual fact that corresponds with the TEST question.

1. Do Revolutions occur always because things are getting worse?
2. What was the main long term economic reason behind the revolution (p. 752)
3. Why was the voting procedure unfair for the Estates GeneraL (p. 753)
4. What were the Cahiers Doleance (check up on internet)?
5. Please know the social structure of France, especially the traits of the three estates. (page 753-755)
6. There will be a number of questions on the unfair taxation system under the OLD REGIME
7. Read about the pamphlet that Abbe Sieyes wrote.  Check up on line the first sentence of that pamphlet.  You must know this.  (page 754)
8. Did some members of the other estates join the third estate (page 754) and your timeline.
9. On page 745, what was the main reason behind the oath at the Tennis Court?
10. Read on page 745 and remember that those who went into exile were called Emigres.
11. What was the impact of the fall of the Bastille on the people (page 745)
12. What was the Great Fear found on page 757.
13. Read about the ideas and the circumstances, including what famous founding father was in Paris at the time of the writing of the Declaration of the Rigths of Man and Citizen. P. 757.
14. One page 759, read about the division of the departments and what they looked like in the map on page 760.
15. What were Assignats (page 759).
16. Page 759…what did the Civil Constitution do regarding the Catholic Church?
17. What happened to the monarchy on September 22, 1792 (page 762).
18. Please read the words on the lower part of page 761 about the King’s failed flight to Varennes.
19. Page 765.  What is the French National Anthem?
20. Two countries were involved in the Brunswick manifesto…Austria and Prussia.
21. What did the Brunswick manifesto announce (page 761)
22. Before they divided into the Girondins and the Mountain what were these groups members of (read on page 762…and throughout the next few pages)
23. What was the purpose of the Committee of Public Safety…but what was really the lethal result (page 763)
24. Please go on the internet and read about this first important victory for the Revolutionary forces (Valmy).  The new spirit of the French army was due to this (page 764).
25. Page 768:  What region in France let the Counter Revolution?
26. What group of people were involved in the Counter Revolution (page 768)
27. Unfortunately, Charlotte Corday’s assassination of the Marat, turned them into this (page 767)
28. What did the continued threat of attacks on France eventually contribute to this horrific event that went over many months and forever marred the revolution (page 763)
29. What was the main purpose of the Reign of Terror (page 763)
30. What did the National Assembly due during the night of August 4^th, 1789 that left a lasting legacy in France (page 757)
31. Foreign intervention during the revolution eventually led to this (bottom of page 764).
32. The ideas of conservative (right) moderate (middle) and liberal (left) reflect the actually seating chart of the French Revolution.  You will have 5 questions asking how different people in the revolution viewed these ideas and what they were opposed to or what they would have supported.