History
The Outbreak of the Revolution
Practice questions
What situation was created by the bread crisis and presence of troops in Paris together?Why was the fall of the Bastille important despite having very few prisoners?Why did peasants target nobles' papers during the Great Fear?What was the revolutionary effect of rural rumours?How did the decisions of the night of 4 August 1789 change the direction of the Revolution?What common idea existed in the end of feudal dues and the Declaration of Rights?Why can the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen be called an ideological victory of the Revolution?Why did bread and the king both become issues in the women's march of 5 October 1789?What was the political meaning of bringing the king and his family to Paris?The rise of the Paris Commune and National Guard indicated what?Lafayette's role in the National Guard shows which side of the Revolution?What can historians understand about the outbreak of the Revolution by reading cahiers?What does limited direct representation of peasants and women in the Estates General show?What was common between the storming of the Bastille and the women's march?The change from Estates General to National Assembly changed which idea of power?How were the causes of discontent in city and village different but connected at the outbreak of the Revolution?Why can the end of feudal privileges not be called only an economic reform?The idea of equality before law in the Declaration was against what?Which economic experience strengthened the political demand of the Third Estate in the Estates General?Which event made rural discontent an immediate issue before the National Assembly?