Class 9 chap1 history Timeline Questions

 Part 1

TIMELINE

Q1. Louis XVI ascended the throne of France__________

Q2.The population of France rose from about 23 million in 1715 to 28 million

in____________

Q3. Louis XVI called together an assembly of the Estates General to pass

proposals for new taxes on

____________________.

Q4. The representatives of the third estate assembled in the hall of an indoor

tennis court in the

grounds of Versailles_______________________________.

Q5. The agitated crowd stormed and destroyed the Bastille.

_______________________

Q6.The Assembly passed a decree abolishing the feudal system of obligations

and

taxes___________________

Q7.The National Assembly completed the draft of the constitution in and

France became a

Constitutional Monarchy______________________________-

Q8. The National Assembly voted in to declare war against Prussia and

Austria._________________________

Q9. The Convention abolished the monarchy and declared France a

republic.______________________________

Q10. Louis XVI was sentenced to death by a court on the charge of treason and

executed publicly at

the Place de la Concorde______________________________

Q11.Robespierre arrested and sent to the

guillotine.________________________

Q12.Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself Emperor of

France.____________________

Q13. Women in France won the right to vote.___________________________

Q14. The Convention which legislated to free all slaves in the French overseas

colonies.______________

Q15.Slavery was finally abolished in French colonies in _______________.