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Junior Cycle History: American & French Revolutions
How often American & French Revolutions comes up on the History papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.
CL Asked on 2 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2025.
Quick ones on American & French Revolutions.
- French peasants against the nobles
- American colonists against Britain
- Irish tenants against their landlords
- The Second Estate (nobles)
- The First Estate (clergy)
- The Third Estate
- A British tax on tea
- The slave trade in Boston
- The high price of French wine
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(a) American colonists against Britain
(b) The Third Estate
(c) A British tax on tea
Common Level
Asked on 2 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2025.
Every paper, year by year
| Year | Where it came up |
|---|---|
| 2026 | Not asked |
| 2025 | Q4 |
| 2024 | Not asked |
| 2023 | Not asked |
| 2022 | Q4 |
Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.
More American & French Revolutions questions
American & French Revolutions, 2 marks
Who commanded the American army in the War of Independence?
- Thomas Jefferson
- Benjamin Franklin
- George Washington
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George Washington
Washington led the Continental Army. With French help the Americans won at Yorktown in 1781, and he became the first US President in 1789.
American & French Revolutions, 3 marks
How did the American Revolution help cause the French Revolution?
- It ended the French monarchy straight away
- It spread liberty and deepened French debt
- American troops invaded France in 1788
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It spread liberty and deepened French debt
France spent heavily helping the Americans, worsening its debts, and soldiers like Lafayette brought home ideas of liberty and rights.
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