History
The Outbreak of the Revolution
Practice questions
What does the presence of lawyers and prosperous businessmen among Third Estate representatives show?Peasants and artisans not getting direct entry into the Estates-General shows which limitation?Why did the Third Estate consider voting by member decisive?Why did the Third Estate call itself the voice of the nation in the declaration of National Assembly?The pledge not to leave in the Tennis Court Oath showed what kind of political determination?Why was the coming together of Mirabeau and Sieyes uncomfortable for the estate system?Recording grievances in cahiers de doleances was an early sign of which change?What common meaning did people see in troop deployment and Necker's dismissal?The Paris crowd searching for weapons was not merely desire for violence but linked with which fear?How were gunpowder and symbol both linked in the storming of the Bastille?The Bastille event is seen as a turning point because it made which power visible?The display of De Launay's severed head in the city showed which extreme public mood?After the fall of the Bastille what indirect pressure came upon royal authority?Rumours in the Great Fear were acting upon which social insecurity?The spread of the Great Fear shows what role information and rumour played in the Revolution?Peasants attacking nobles' chateaux targeted which power structure?What was the peasants' strategy in burning feudal records?Why is it necessary to connect the decisions of 4 August night with peasant actions?Abolition of feudal privileges addressed which old experience of the Third Estate?How did the demand for bread reach royal power in the women's march to Versailles?