Worksheet: The French Revolution

Q.1. Fill in the blanks.
(i) ________ sought to refute the doctrine of the divine and absolute right of the Monarch.
(ii) Louis XVI was sentenced to death by a court on the charge of _________.
(iii) The slave trade began in the ________ century.
(iv)  Louis XVI was executed publicly at the ________.
(v) On the morning of ________, the city of Paris was in a state of alarm.

Q.2. Which term was used in France for newly elected assembly in 1791?

Q.3. What form of government was in practice in France in 1789?

Q.4. When did the French Revolution break?

Q.5. When did France become constitutional monarchy?

Q.6. What was the main object of national assembly in France while drafting the constitution in 1791?

Q.7. Who wrote the book two treatises of government?

Q.8. Who followed the policy of severe control and punishment in France?

Q.9. Which was the most revolutionary social reform of the Jacobin regime?

Q.10. In which year French women got the right to vote?

Q.11. Who wrote the spirit of the laws?

Q.12. In which book Rousseau mention the idea of one person, one vote?

Q.13. What sort of clothes were worn by the Jacobins?

Q.14. Between which three countries was triangular slave trade held?

Q.15. Which period is referred to as the reign of terror?

Q.16. Who was defeated in the battle of waterloo?

Q.17. Who wrote the book 'The Social Contract'?

Q.18. What does a sceptre stand for?

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