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Causes of the French Revolution & Storming of the

Bastille
Directions:

Use the websites below to answer the questions. Type your answers in complete sentences if needed.

Go to:
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1) What type of government did France have before the French Revolution?

2) What were the social classes of France called? Describe who made up each social
class.

3) Which social class did most people of France belong to?

4) What caused the French government to go into debt by 1789? (Three reasons)

5) How did the king respond to the financial crisis? Why did this anger the common
people?

6) How did bread prices help cause the French Revolution?

7) What did the Third Estate form to try and force the king to make reforms?
8) Why was the king in conflict with the nobles?

9) Which social class held powerful positions in government but did not have to pay
many of the taxes?

Estates General

Go to: https://www.ducksters.com/history/french_revolution/estates_general.php

10) What was the purpose of the Estates General?

11) Which estate had to pay the most taxes in France?

12) Why did King Louis XVI call a meeting with the Estates General in 1789?

13) Why did the Third Estate break away from the Estates General and declare itself
the “National Assembly?” What did they begin doing?

14) Why did members of the National Assembly have to move their meeting place
to the local tennis court?

15) What was the Tennis Court Oath?


16) Why do you think the Tennis Court Oath was a significant event of the French
Revolution?

National Assembly
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17) What did the National Assembly demand of King Louis XVI?

18) Why did the National Assembly form in May of 1789?

19) What did all of the members of the revolutionary assembly want to happen?

20) What caused conflict with the different factions within the National Assembly?

21) Did the members of the assembly represent all of the people? Explain your
answer.

22) What famous document did the assembly pass in 1789? Who influenced the
document?
The Storming of the Bastille
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23) What event started the French Revolution?

24) Why was the Bastille built? What was it used for by the late 1700s?

25) Which French social class stormed the Bastille?

26) Why did the revolutionaries storm the Bastille?

27) What effect did the Storming of the Bastille have on France?

28) What happened to the Bastille over the next five months?

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