What Was the Great Fear

question 42

Multiple Choice

What was the Great Fear?

• A) The fear by the first and second estates that the new constitution would limit their power
• B) The fear by Louis XVI that he was going to be overthrown after dismissing Necker
• C) The fear that the National Assembly would be dismissed before a constitution was completed
• D) Peasant revolts in the rest of the country in reaction to the events in Paris
• E) Mutiny by the army when called upon to stop mob violence at the Bastille

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