The French Revolution

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Hint	Answer
Members of the First Estate	Clergy
Members of the Second Estate	Nobility
Members of the Third Estate	Common People
Name of the direct tax	Taille
Population (%) in the First Estate	0.6%
National land (%) owned by First Estate	8-10%
Name of the church tax	Tithe
Population (%) in the Second Estate	0.4%
National land (%) owned by Second Estate	30%
Name for public services tax	Corvée
Name for salt tax	Gabelle
Name for income tax	Vingtième
Population (%) in the Third Estate	98%
Population (%) in the peasantry	85%
National land (%) owned by Third Estate	25-45%
Name for the peasant tax paid to landlord	Feudal Dues
Population (%) in the bourgeoisie	8%
Enlightenment philosophe V_______	Voltaire
Enlightenment philosophe M_________	Montesquieu
Enlightenment philosophe R_______	Rousseau
Enlightenment philosophe D______	Diderot
'Bible of the revolution'	Social Contract
Publication year of above	1762
Years of the four wars waged by France 1733 - ____	1783
Cost of these four wars for France	4,000 million livres
Nickname given to Marie Antoinette for her extravagant spening	Madame Deficit
First step of ecenomic crisis	Financial Crisis
Second step of ecenomic crisis	Fiscal Crisis
Third step of ecenomic crisis	Political Crisis
First Finance Minister (1774 - 1776)	Turgot
Second Finance Minister (1776 - 1781)	Necker
Third Finance Minister (1783 - 1787)	Calonne
Fourth Finance Minister (1787 - 1788)	Brienne
Financial declaration published by Necker	Compte Rendu au Roi
Year of this document's publication	1781
Claim of surplus made in the document	10 million livres
Actual deficit of French economy	46 million livres

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Annual deficit of French economy on 1786	112 million livres
Organisation appealed to by Calonne for fiscal reform	Assembly of Notables
Organisation that the case was referred to by the above	Estates-General
Organisation appealed to by Brienne for fiscal reform	Paris Parlement
Action by Parlements to delay or block legislation	Remonstrance
Date of Royal Session in which Parlements blocked legislation	17th November 1787
Income (%) speant by peasants on bread in 1789	65-90%
Drop (%) in demand for consumer goods in 1789	50%
Books organised for the meeting of the Estates-General	Cahiers de Doleances
English translation of above	Books of Grievances
Decree wby which the King could improson without explanation	Lettres de Cachet
Intellectual leader and key figure in revolution	Abbe Sieyes
Pamplet published by above in January 1789	What is the Third Estate?
Number of delegates for the Third Estate at Estates-General	578
Organisation formed by the Third Estate led by Sieyes	National Assembly
Date of the formation of above	17th June 1789
Oath of solidarity swore by the National Assembly	Tennis Court Oath
Date of the above event	20th June 1789
Number of royal troops surrounding Paris 1st July 1789	20,000
Stage one of the four revolts	Aristocratic Revolt
Years of the above ____ - 1788	1787
Stage two of the four revolts	Bourgeois Revolt
Years of the above ____ - 1789	1788
Stage three of the four revolts	Urban Revolt
Stage four of the four revolts	Peasant Revolt
Number of troops surrounding Paris 11th July 1789	30,000
Name of fortress in Paris stormed by workers	The Bastille
Date on which above occurred	14th July 1789
Number of muskets seized by workers	28,000
Number of cannons seized by workers	20
Number of people killed in this event	98
Number of nobles that fled abroad as a result of this	20,000
Months of the Great Fear July - ______	August
Dates of the August Decrees 5th - __ of August	11th
Tax abolition proposal on the 4th August	Feudal Dues
Dates of the October Days 4th - _ of October	6th