French Revolution - Very Short Q and A
Q1: The Third Estate comprised of what?
Answer: Poor servants and small peasants, landless labourers, Peasants, artisans,Big businessmen, merchants, lawyers, etc.
Q2: Who advocated ‘each member should have one vote’?
Answer: Rousseau
Q3: What decision was taken by the convention?
Answer: Declared France a Republic
Q4: How does a ‘Subsistence Crisis’ happen?
Answer: ‘Subsistence Crisis’ happened in France due to the following reasons:-
i) Bad harvest
ii)Scarcity of grains
iii) High prices of food.
Q5: In the war against Prussia and Austria, the army sang which patriotic song?
Answer: ‘Marseillaise’ written by the poet Roget de Lisle