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The term `Old Regime` refers to which of the following?

Which of the following members of estate in the French society were exempted from paying taxes?

Which of the following were made to pay the feudal dues in the eighteenth century society?

Match the following.

Which of the following correctly describes subsistence crisis?

Which of the following played an important role in generating anger and protest against the system of privileges prevalent in the eighteenth century?
(i) Members of the third estate like lawyers and administrative officials
(ii) Ideas of philosophers named John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau
(iii) Members of the first and second estate

Which of the following correctly defines `Estate General`?

The democratic principle `each member would have one vote` was demanded in the estates general by

What was the main motive behind the formation of the National Assembly?

Match the following.

When did France become a Constitutional Monarchy?

Which of the following was/were the characteristic(s) of Constitutional Monarchy?
(i) Only active citizens were entitled to vote.
(ii) All the citizens except women had the right to vote.
(iii) Natural and inalienable rights were given to active citizens only.

Arrange the following events in chronological order:

(a) Execution of Louis XVI at the Place de la Concorde
(b) Formation of the Jacobin Club
(c) Destruction of the Bastille
(d) France becomes a republic

What was the main purpose of formation of political clubs in France?

Which of the following statements is/are true about Jacobins?

i. They mainly belonged to the prosperous sections of the society.
ii. They came to be known as sans-culottes.
iii. They wore knee breeches.

When was the Monarchy of France abolished?

Which assembly declared France, a republic?

Which of the following is correct about `Jacobins`?

Which of the following policies was adopted by Robespierre?

Which of the following is/are not the feature(s) of `The Reign of Terror`?

i. The number of churches was increased.
ii. Peasants were forced to sell their grain at prices fixed by the government.
iii. Women were barred from participation in the political system.

Which of the following is true in respect of `Directory ruled France`?

Which of the following is correct about women`s revolution in France?
(I) Wages of women were made equivalent to those of men.
(II) Government enacted laws in favour of women`s participation in political activities.
(III) The Society of Revolutionary and Republican Women demanded the right to vote for women.

Which of the following was one of the most revolutionary social reforms of the Jacobin regime in France?

Which of the following indirectly led to slave trade in French colonies?