History
The Outbreak of the Revolution
Practice questions
How did the presence of troops in Paris change the atmosphere before Bastille?What was the combined effect of high bread prices and fear of troops in Paris?What was the practical need of the people while attacking the Bastille?Why was the fall of the Bastille important beyond the number of prisoners held there?What does turning Bastille stones into souvenirs show?What is the strongest basis for linking the fall of the Bastille with a crisis of state legitimacy?How did rumours in the Great Fear have political effect?What was most directly challenged by peasants burning documents?What common element existed in the Great Fear and the Bastille event?Why are the decisions of 4 August 1789 called an institutional answer to peasant pressure?How did the end of feudal privileges change power relations in villages?Why is it necessary to study the decisions of 4 August and the Declaration of Rights together?Why was the idea of equality in the Declaration dangerous for estate society?What does women's role in the march to Versailles show about the nature of the Revolution?Bringing the king from Versailles to Paris symbolized what political change?Why is it incomplete to call the march to Versailles only a bread march?The rise of Paris Commune and National Guard shows which urban side of the Revolution?What balance is understood by studying Lafayette and the National Guard together?What do the Bastille in the city and the burning of feudal records in villages together show?Why is it insufficient to describe the crisis of 1789 as only a fiscal crisis?