Read Chapter 23 Section 1 in your textbook and answer the following questions. Answers should be in blue or black ink or typed and printed.
Due: Monday, 12/15
1. Define:
a. Old Regime
b. estates
c. Louis XVI
d. Marie Antoinette
e. Estates General
f. National Assembly
g. Great Fear
2. How was the bourgeoisie unlike other groups within the Third Estate?
3. Did France's system of Estates violate the principle of equality? Explain.
4. How did Louis XVI's weak leadership contribute to the growing crisis in France? Explain.
5. Why did the nobles expect each estate to have one vote under the medieval rules?
6. After years of oppression what finally caused the French people to revolt?
7. Were changes in the French government inevitable? Explain using your knowledge of prior French government leading up to the revolt.
