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Subject: History Class-IX Chapter-1 The French Revolution: Assignment-1

The document provides an assignment on the French Revolution asking students to identify symbols of the revolution and fill in blanks of a passage about causes of the revolution. The passage discusses that King Louis XVI ran out of money after wars with Britain and faced opposition to tax increases from the nobility and church. Poor harvests exacerbated economic problems faced by peasants, contributing to the conditions that led to the 1789 revolution.

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Subject: History Class-IX Chapter-1 The French Revolution: Assignment-1

The document provides an assignment on the French Revolution asking students to identify symbols of the revolution and fill in blanks of a passage about causes of the revolution. The passage discusses that King Louis XVI ran out of money after wars with Britain and faced opposition to tax increases from the nobility and church. Poor harvests exacerbated economic problems faced by peasants, contributing to the conditions that led to the 1789 revolution.

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Subject: History

Class-IX
Chapter-1 The French Revolution
ASSIGNMENT-1
Q I. Given below are the symbols of French revolution. Write what each of these symbols
stood for:
a.

b.

c.
QII Fill in the gaps on this sheet using the words at the bottom of the page.
HINT: The dashes in each space tell you how many letters you need to use.

There was a revolution in _ _ _ _ _ _ in 1789. The ruler of France before the Revolution
was King _ _ _ _ _ XVI. His wife was Queen _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _. King Louis
XVI lived in his palace at _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ near Paris.

One of the reasons why there was a revolution in France in 1789 is that the king ran out
of _ _ _ _ _. He spent lots of money on two wars with _ _ _ _ _ _ _. One was in 1756
and another one was in 1778. In the second war the French were helping the _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ break away from British control.

Another cause of the French Revolution was the problems faced by the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.
They were so poor that they did not have enough money to feed their families. This was
made worse when the crops failed to grow. The _ _ _ _ _ _ _ failed in 1787 and 1788.
Another cause of the French Revolution was that the two _ _ _ _ groups in France
would not give the king more money. The _ _ _ _ _ and the _ _ _ _ _ _ had lots of land
and money but would not pay more _ _ _ _ _. This left the king unable to find more
money.

A final reason why the French had a revolution in 1789 was ideas. A new set of ideas
called the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ attacked the power of the king and the church. These
made lots of ordinary French people think that they should have some of the power of
the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.

taxes
I am a
peasants peasant. I
I am a lord. I Americans have
have lots of Louis nothing.
money and do When the
Marie Antoinette
not want to crops fail to
pay any extra government
grow the
taxes to the Enlightenment prices rise
king! Britain Iand
amIKing
starve.
Louis
lords XVI. I have run
I am a bishop out of money
France of the church. fighting the
rich I have lots of British. Perhaps
church money but I the lords and the
Versailles do not want to church could
give the king give me some
harvest
any extra more taxes?
money taxes either!

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