DHS Y3 WA2 practice paper 2022 (French Revolution)

`DUNMANHIGHSCHOOLHUMANITIESANDARTSPROGRAMMEYEAR3HistoryUnit1Worksheet Name:__________________________( ) Class:________ SBQPRACTICE-1789FRENCHREVOLUTIONLORMSFRAMEWORK&ANSWER SectionA(18marks) Question1iscompulsoryforallcandidates. StudytheBackgroundInformationandthesourcescarefully, andthenanswerallthequestions.Youmayuseanyof thesourcesto helpyouanswerthequestions,inadditionto thosesourcesyouweretoldto use.In answeringthequestions,youshoulduseyourknowledgeof thetopicto helpyouinterpretandevaluatethesources. (a) StudySourceA. What isthemessageof thissource?Explainyour answer. [5] (b) StudySourceBandC. How similar are the 2 sources in explaining the outbreak of the FrenchRevolution?Explainyour answer. [6] (c) StudySourceD. Howuseful isthissourcetoahistorianstudyingthecausesof theFrenchRevolution?Explainyour answer. [7] WITHANSWER

WhatwasthemaincauseoftheFrenchRevolution? BACKGROUNDINFORMATION Readthiscarefully. Itmayhelpyoutoanswersomeofthequestions. TheFrenchRevolutionwasa periodof radicalsocialandpoliticalupheavalinFrancethathada lastingimpactonFrenchhistoryandmorebroadlythroughoutEurope.Political,social,andeconomicconditionsin Francecontributedto thediscontentfeltbymanyFrenchpeople-especiallythoseofthethirdestate.Theideasof theintellectualsof theEnlightenmentbroughtnewviewsof governmentandsociety. The AmericanRevolutionalsoinfluencedthe comingof the FrenchRevolution. So,whatwasthemaincausebehindtheoutbreakoftheFrenchRevolutionin1789? SourceA: StatisticsonthethreeEstatesofFrancebeforetheFrenchRevolution,publishedinatextbook,2003. SourceB: ComteD’Antraigues,apro-monarchyFrenchnobleman, speakingaboutthecausesoftheFrenchRevolutioninexileinItalyafter1789. The condition of France alonedidnot bringabout theoverthrowof themonarchy…for thesufferingof the people was not greater than they had been before. The ideas of the philosophers were notdirectly responsible for the outbreak…[but] thesparkthat changedthought intoactionwassuppliedby the Declaration of American Independence…The American example caused the Revolution tobreakout… 2

SourceC: Excerptfroma textbookaboutthesituationin ParisjustbeforetheFrenchRevolution. Innormaltimesa workerspentupto50percentofhisincomeonbread.InAugust1788thepriceofa 1.8kgloafwas9 sous.ByMarch1789,it hadrisentoover14sousperloaf.Bythespringof1789aParisianworkercouldbespending88percentof his wageson bread.ThiscausedhardshipandunrestamongsttheParisianpopulation.Forexample,on28April1789,thepremisesofa prosperouswallpapermanufacturer, Reveillon,weresetonfire,followinga rumourthathewasgoingtoreducewages.Butthisriotwasmorea violentprotestagainstthescarcityandhighpriceof breadthana protestagainstwages.At least50 peoplewerekilledorwoundedbytroops. SourceD: Excerptsfromcahiers(listsofgrievancesfromthepeopleofFrancecompiledinthespringof1789)thatwereraisedintheEstatesGeneralduringthesummerof1789. SourceE:Anextractfroma historian’sviewontheNationalAssembly, takenfromatextbookprintedin2019. Theformationof theNational Assemblywasadirect c