BOARD QUESTIONS
1. What is subsistence crisis? Mention any two factors responsible for this in france
2. Which period in French history is known as the "Reign of Terror ? Give reasons
3. Explain the achievements of Napoleon Bonaparte of France
Explain how the new political system of Constitutional monarchy in France worked?
5 Trace the events which led to the fall of Bastille
6 How was Church responsible for the French Revolution?
7. Explain any five features of the Constitution of 1791, framed by the National Assembly in Pace 12
& Mention any five symbols which came up during the French Revolution and explain their significance
What landmark decisions were taken by the National Assembly led by the Third Estate on 4th August
10 which hatte seated the fate of France in 1815?
Il ideas of liberty and democratic rights were the most important legacy of the French Revolution Bip
statement in the light of French Revolution
12. Who abolished slavery in France
13. How did the laws introduced by revolutionary government help to improve the lives of women in
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1.The price of products increased with no increment in the wages which increased the gap in rich and poor. Subsistence crisis: the Rising population and less grain production resulted in demand supply gap. So the basic need are endangered. Due to the droughts, hail and other causes the production was lowered.
2.The reign of terror is the period in the french revolution after the First French Republic was established. It is known as the reign of terror because during this period there were 16,594 official death sentences in France 2,639 of this were in Paris. This period was between June 1793 and the end of July 1794.
3.Napoleon conquered much of Europe through his skills of military leadership. 2. He transformed military formation and training and launched the Napoleonic Code; that abolished the privileges based on birth and established equality before the law.
4.The new political system of constitutional monarchy in France worked in the following manner : The constitution of 1791 had given the power to make laws to the national assembly, that was indirectly elected by a group of electors voted by the citizens who had choosen the assembly.
5.when the nationalist Assembly busy at Bastille grafting a constitution with rest of France seethed with turmoil.
a severe winter had ment a bad harvest ,the price of the bread rose often bakers exploited the situation and hoarded supplies.
6.France was divided into three estates : 1st estate (Clergy) 2nd estate (Nobility) 3rd estate (bussiness men, merchants, peasants, artisans, landless labourers nd servants) and only 3rd estate was made to pay taxes church was responsible for the revolution because the church also took their share from the the third ...
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