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CLSM · World History · Progress Check 3
The French Revolution
Read the situation. Connect the ideas. Show how you know.
Name ___________________________Class __________ Date __________
01 Recall, then make a connection.
Sovereignty
Representation
Revolution
Distinguish sovereignty from representation. Explain how a revolution could change the source of governing authority without immediately making political participation equal for everyone.
Read the situation.
The French Revolution began amid fiscal problems, social and political inequalities, and disputes about representation and authority. No single cause explains every decision or phase. The 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen articulated principles about liberty, law, and sovereignty, but announcing rights did not automatically establish equal participation for every person.
02 Organize the information.
Trace change, not inevitability
A historian is studying a particular revolutionary reform.
Arrange the inquiry.
Read the reform’s stated principle and legal wording.
Examine how officials and communities implemented or resisted it.
Explain its effects and limits without assuming later events were inevitable.
Identify the earlier rule and the pressure for change.
Write the letters in order:
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Explain why one step or event belongs where you put it.
CLSM · World History · Progress Check 3
What does the evidence show?
The French Revolution
03 Follow the evidence.
Investigate the petition
A petition argues that a group is excluded despite the declaration’s principles.
Select all records that directly establish whether this group could exercise the stated right.
The actual participation rule applying to that group.
Records of the group’s attempts to claim or exercise the stated right.
The declaration repeats a general promise of equality without explaining implementation.
Participation rules describe a different group in an unrelated later period.
Name the useful records and explain how they answer the claim.
04 Apply the idea.
Choose the headline
The newsroom has evidence of fiscal pressure, rights claims, and restricted participation.
Which headline is most accurate?
Revolutionary change combined several pressures and opened contested claims to rights.
One financial problem explains every revolutionary action.
Every French person wanted exactly the same outcome.
Choose a conclusion and explain why it fits the situation.
05 Carry the idea forward.
Write a newsroom analysis explaining two kinds of pressure behind revolutionary change and a gap between rights language and implementation. Identify a source that could reveal a group’s response.