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:
Period 7: Monday, January 4, 2010
Period 8: Tuesday, January 5, 2010
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. How did the women's march mark a turning point in the relationship between the king and the people?
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.
