1. What were three main estates in France and most of Europe before the French Revolution? 2. How did the Enlightenment challenge the estate system in France and the rest of Europe?

3. Why did people in France become upset with the king of France in the 1780s?

4. Why was the storming of the Bastille important?

5. What is the basic idea behind the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?

6. What happened during the time period called the “Terror” within the French Revolution?

7. Who basically ended the French Revolution?

Explanation:

1.) France under the Ancien regimen before French Revolution divided Society into three Estates the first estate clergy the second estate nobility and the Third Estate commoners .

2.) the enlightenment was an intellectual movement that emerged in Western Europe in the mid 1600 and provided a ideological Enlightenment thinkers were empirieists they expected their new theories or discoveries to meet certain standards of proof in versability before they could be accepted as a fact .

3.)Louis XVI was persuaded to finance and provide troops for the American Revolution, which cost France a great amount of money it had to borrow. The success of the American Revolution decreased British power and prestige but hurt France and its finances and economy in the process. The American Revolution further legitimized republican government at the expense of monarchical rule.

4.)The Storming of the Bastille set off a series of events that led to the overthrow of King Louis XVI and the French Revolution. The success of the revolutionaries gave commoners throughout France the courage to rise up and fight against the nobles who had ruled them for so long.

5.)The basic principle of the Declaration was that all “men are born and remain free and equal in rights” (Article 1), which were specified as the rights of liberty, private property, the inviolability of the person, and resistance to oppression.

6.)During the Reign of Terror, at least 300,000 suspects were arrested; 17,000 were officially executed, and perhaps 10,000 died in prison or without trial.

7.) it ended in the late 1790s with the acent of Napoleon Bonaparte