French Revolution Class 9

This is the correct answer. Tithe was the tax levied by the church on the peasants. This included ten percent agricultural produce.

Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu was a French political philosopher who wrote 'The Spirit of Laws'. This model of government was put into force in the USA after the thirteen colonies declared their independence from Britain.

The Marseillaise was composed by poet Rouget de Lisle. It was sung for the first time by volunteers from Marseilles as they marched into Paris.

This is correct as peasants, artisans and women were denied entry to the assembly of the Estates General.

This is the correct answer. Louis XVI was sentenced to death by a court on charge of treason. 

This is the correct answer. Sans-culottes men wore the red caps that symbolised liberty.

The monarch in the Old Regime did not have the power to impose taxes according to his will alone. He had to call a meeting of the Estates General, which would then pass his proposals for new taxes. The three estates consisted of the clergy (first estate), the nobility (second estate) and peasants, businessmen, lawyers, etc. (third estate).

This answer is correct. Slavery was finally abolished in French colonies in 1848.

This is the correct answer. The Directory was meant as a safeguard against the concentration of power in a one-man executive as under the Jacobins.

This is the correct answer. The colonies in the Caribbean Martinique, Guadeloupe and San Domingo were important suppliers of commodities such as tobacco, indigo, sugar and coffee. They lacked labour and the flourishing slave trade benefited them as the exploitation of slave labour made it possible to meet the growing demand in European markets for sugar, coffee and indigo.

This is the correct answer. The women in France won the right to vote in 1946.

This is the correct answer as all the statements are correct. Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself the Emperor of France in 1804. Napolean introduced a uniform system of weights and measures provided by the decimal system. Napolean was defeated at Waterloo in 1815.

This is the correct answer. He was the leader of the radical Jacobins in the National Assembly. It was under his leadership that France was under the Reign of Terror from 1793 to 1794 as he attempted to silence all enemies of the Revolution in an effort to save France from invasion.

The period from 1715 to 1789 in France saw significant population growth, which directly increased demand for food grains. More people require more food to sustain themselves. The other options (falling prices, rising living standards, or quality improvements) would not necessarily cause increased demand - population growth is the most direct and historically accurate explanation.

The Taille was a direct tax imposed by the French state on the peasants, specifically on land and property. Unlike the tithes (one-tenth to the church) or indirect taxes on goods, the Taille was paid directly to royal officials. The term 'direct tax' in option B accurately describes this system.