Causes of the French Revolution DBQ
1. List three observations this traveler made about the life of the peasant in France between
1787 and 1789.
2. What conclusions can you draw about the relationship between the percentage of the
population in each estate and the percentage of land owned by the estate?
3. What unfair conditions existed in pre-revolutionary France?
4. What three changes did the third estate demand be made in the French government?
5. What was the result of the middle class’s knowledge of the ideas of the Enlightenment?
6. What did Lord Acton believe caused the French revolution?
7. What does Comte D’Antraigues see as the rightful role of the Third Estate in France?
8. What is the cartoonist saying about the relationship among the three estates in France?
9. According to this document, what are the natural rights of man?
10. List the ideas from the Enlightenment that you can find in the Declaration of the Right of
Man and Citizen.
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