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DATE: 16-10-2021 THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

Class: IX STD SOCIAL STUDIES HOLIDAYS HOMEWORK-1

1. On the morning of 14 July 1789, the city of Paris was in a state of alarm.

2. The Marseillaise is the national anthem of France composed by the poet Roget de L’Isle

3.Louis XVI was executed publicly at the Place de la Concorde.

4. Olympe de Gouges wrote a Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizen.

5. The slave trade began in the seventeenth century.

6. The burden of financing activities of the state through taxes was borne by the third estate alone.

7. Louis XVI was sentenced to death by a court on the charge of treason.

8. Rousseau proposed a form of government based on a social contract between people and their
representatives.

9. Locke sought to refute the doctrine of the divine and absolute right of the Monarch.

10. Jacobins came to be known as the sans-culottes.

11. In 1774, Louis XVI of the Bourbon family of Kings ascended the throne of France .

12.The newly elected assembly was called The convention

13. In France, the eighteenth century witnessed the emergence of a social group, termed as the Middle
class .

14.The American constitution and its guarantee of individual rights was an important example for
political thinkers in France .

15.The constitution of 1791 vested the power to make laws in the National Assembly.

16.The constitution began with a Declaration of the rights of Man and citizen .

17.The National Assembly of France voted in April 1792 to declare war against Prussia and Austrial .

18.The members of the Jacobin Club belonged mainly to the less prosperous sections of society.

19.Slavery finally abolished in French colonies in 1848.

20.One important law that came into effect soon after the storming of the Bastille in 1789 was the
Abolition of censorship.