Author Question: What saved the Revolution as a whole when the revolution of the lawyers appeared doomed by the ... (Read 155 times)

skymedlock · **on:** Sep 12, 2019

Question 1

On the eve of the Revolution, the Estates system in France referred to the

a. customary, informal division of French society into three groups.
b. legal division of French society into three distinct groups.
c. vestiges of manorialism: manors worked by serfs.
d. Estates General's limitation of the king's powers.
e. plantations in the French West Indies.

Question 2

What saved the Revolution as a whole when the revolution of the lawyers appeared doomed by the threat of royal armed forces in the summer of 1789?

a. The betrayal of the monarchy by high clergymen
b. The defection of key nobles of the sword to the rebels
c. The intervention of armed commoners, especially in urban uprisings
d. The outside influence of mercenary troops paid by the rebels
e. The intervention of Britain, whose constitutional monarch seemed threatened by upheaval in France