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The French revolution
ASSIGNMENT SHEET-IV
INSTRUCTIONS:
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Answer all the questions in the notebook
Qno.1 to 10 to be answered in 80 words & Qno. 11 to 15 to be answered in 120 words.
Write the answers point wise.
Only Blue/Blue black gel, ballpoint pen to be used
Whitener not allowed
1. What was meant by Estate General?
2. What was Slave trade?.
3. Discuss the main provisions of the Decree passed by National Assembly on 4th August1789.
4. Describe the causes &b effects of Insurrections of revolt of 1792.
5. Who were Jacobins? Why were they known as Sans-culottes?
6. How was middle class responsible for the French revolution ?
7. With the help of figure discuss the three Estates in France.
8. What do you know about the Economic condition of France that led to the revolution?
9. What led to the Spread of Great fear in France ?
10. What conditions in France led to Subsistence Crisis?
Answers
Answer:
1.
Estates-General, also called States General, French États-Généraux, in France of the pre-Revolutionary monarchy, the representative assembly of the three “estates,” or orders of the realm: the clergy and nobility—which were privileged minorities—and a Third Estate, which represented the majority of the people.
2.The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas. The slave trade regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage, and existed from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
3.On the night of 4 August 1789, the Assembly passed a decree which are mentioned below: (i)It abolished the feudal system of obligations and taxes. (ii)Members of the clergy too were forced to give up their privileges. (iii)Tithes were abolished and lands owned by the Church were confiscated.
4.The monarchy had consolidated power through the intendant system, and the failure of crops and the economy. These woes along with the ideas of the Enlightenment and the American Revolution led to the demand for a French constitution at the storming of the Bastille which helped to create it.
5.The sans-culottes, most of them urban labourers, served as the driving popular force behind the revolution. They were judged by the other revolutionaries as "radicals" because they advocated a direct democracy, that is to say, without intermediaries such as members of parliament.
6.The rise of middle class in the French Revolution: Peasants, bourgeoisie and other commoners were included in the third estate. When Louis XVI took the charge he increased the taxes and in which people from the third estate were liable to pay these taxes. They took action against the increasing taxes and took control.
7.France under the Ancien Régime (before the French Revolution) divided society into three estates: the First Estate (clergy); the Second Estate (nobility); and the Third Estate (commoners). The king was not considered part of any estate.
8.1) constant wars 2) undistribution of taxes 3) luxurious life of the rulers of France 4) extension of help to American Countries 5) Increase in death by war rise in the rate of interest by 10 percent. (ii) cost of maintaining extravagant court at the immense palace of versailles.
9.Great Fear, French Grande Peur, (1789) in the French Revolution, a period of panic and riot by peasants and others amid rumours of an “aristocratic conspiracy” by the king and the privileged to overthrow the Third Estate.
10.Subsistence crisis is a situation in which the basic needs of people are in danger. <>Population increased from 23 million in 1715 to 28 million in 1789.
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The reasons for subsistence crisis in French are:
Increase in France's population.
Not more production of food.
Increased cost of food.
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