Crash Course World History Episode #29:
The French Revolution
1) List TWO ways France spent/lost money.
- Funding the American Revolution
- King Louis XVI spending half of his national budget to service the
federal debt.
2) What did the third estate create when they couldn’t come to an
agreement with the first and second estates?
- Their own national assembly.
3) What did the third estate do in reaction to being locked out by Louis
XVI?
- Found an indoor tennis court and agreed to not back down until a
constitution was established.
4) Why was the Bastille stormed?
- To free prisoners and to get guns.
5) What did the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen state?
- Declared that everyone has a right to property, liberty, and security, going
against the French Revolution’s actions.
6) Who made up the radical wing of the revolution?
- The French
7) Why did King Leopold of Austria and King Williams Fredrick of Prussia
get nervous?
- The sentence to the guillotine by one vote.
8) Why was the Guillotine “equal”?
- It was a humane thing and didn’t discriminate against anyone for their
social status. It killed equally.
9) Name ONE thing, the Committee of Public Safety changed
- The measurements of time
The French Revolution
1) List TWO ways France spent/lost money.
- Funding the American Revolution
- King Louis XVI spending half of his national budget to service the
federal debt.
2) What did the third estate create when they couldn’t come to an
agreement with the first and second estates?
- Their own national assembly.
3) What did the third estate do in reaction to being locked out by Louis
XVI?
- Found an indoor tennis court and agreed to not back down until a
constitution was established.
4) Why was the Bastille stormed?
- To free prisoners and to get guns.
5) What did the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen state?
- Declared that everyone has a right to property, liberty, and security, going
against the French Revolution’s actions.
6) Who made up the radical wing of the revolution?
- The French
7) Why did King Leopold of Austria and King Williams Fredrick of Prussia
get nervous?
- The sentence to the guillotine by one vote.
8) Why was the Guillotine “equal”?
- It was a humane thing and didn’t discriminate against anyone for their
social status. It killed equally.
9) Name ONE thing, the Committee of Public Safety changed
- The measurements of time
