AP®︎ European History: Topic 5.4 Practice Test
Prepare for your quiz, test, or the AP exam with focused practice questions on Topic 5.4 of AP European History – The French Revolution.
Questions List
Topic 5.4
Question 1 Easy
This question tests the following: KC-2.1.IV.A
Which social class primarily made up the Third Estate in France?
What You’re Being Tested On:
Explore the learning objectives taken directly from the College Board’s AP® European History Curriculum. Ensure you’re prepared for the exact topics covered on the AP® exam, in-class tests, and quizzes, and gain confidence in your mastery of the material.
Topic 5.4: The French Revolution
Thematic Focus: States and Other Institutions of PowerSOP
European states and nations developed governmental and civil institutions from 1450 to the present to organize society and consolidate political power, with a variety of social, cultural, and economic effects.
Learning Objective: Unit 5: Learning Objective D
Explain the causes, events, and consequences of the French Revolution.
Historical Developments: KC-2.1.IV.A
The French Revolution resulted from a combination of long-term social and political causes, as well as Enlightenment ideas, exacerbated by short-term fiscal and economic crises.
Historical Developments: KC-2.1.IV.B
The first, or liberal, phase, of the French Revolution established a constitutional monarchy, increased popular participation, nationalized the Catholic Church, and abolished hereditary privileges.
Historical Developments: KC-2.1.IV.C
After the execution of Louis XVI, the radical Jacobin republic led by Robespierre responded to opposition at home and war abroad by instituting the Reign of Terror, fixing prices and wages, and pursuing a policy of de-Christianization.
Historical Developments: KC-2.1.IV.D
Revolutionary armies, raised by mass conscription, sought to bring the changes initiated in France to the rest of Europe.
Historical Developments: KC-2.1.IV.E
Women enthusiastically participated in the early phases of the revolution; however, while there were brief improvements in the legal status of women, citizenship in the republic was soon restricted to men.
Illustrative Examples specific knowledge students should know & demonstrate
- Peasant and bourgeois grievances
- Bread shortages
- French involvement in American Revolution
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
- Civil Constitution of the Clergy
- Constitution of 1791
- Abolition of provinces and division of France into departments
- Georges Danton
- Jean-Paul Marat
- Committee of Public Safety
- Levée en masse
- October March on Versailles
- Olympe de Gouges
- Society of Republican Revolutionary Women
