History
The Outbreak of the Revolution
Practice questions
Which is the most balanced conclusion for understanding the outbreak of the Revolution?Why is calling the Estates-General in 1789 seen not merely as an administrative step but as the beginning of a political crisis?Why was the one vote per estate method structurally unfair to the Third Estate?The Third Estate declaring itself the National Assembly pointed toward which idea?The Tennis Court Oath's pledge not to disperse until a constitution was made challenged what?What change is shown by the events from 5 May 1789 to 20 June 1789?Why can Mirabeau's role seem contradictory in the outbreak of the Revolution?Abbe Sieyes's pamphlet presented the Third Estate not merely as a social order but as what?If the National Assembly called itself the representative of the nation what was its most direct effect on the Old Regime?Taking weapons from the Invalides and moving to the Bastille shows what immediate mindset?Besides being an event to obtain arms the storming of the Bastille was like breaking which larger symbol?Why is it incomplete to call the killing of De Launay only crowd violence?What common element existed between the storming of the Bastille and the formation of the National Assembly?How should the role of rumours in the Great Fear be understood?Peasants burning feudal records was linked with which legal aim?Why can the Great Fear be called a rural parallel to the Bastille event?Why are the decisions of 4 August 1789 seen as a response to peasant action?The abolition of feudal privileges shows which dimension of the Revolution?Why is the women's march to Versailles called an example of the meeting of daily life and politics?What was the political meaning of bringing the king from Versailles to Paris?