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Why did members of the national convention turn against Robespierre on 9 Thermidor

They believed that Robespierre might soon have them arrested and executed

Why did the French commissioners sent by the newly elected national convention to Saint-Dominque abolish slavery in 1793

They were desperate to rally the rebel slaves to the French cause against the Spanish and English forces on the island

The Declaration of the rights of Man and of the citizen guaranteed

equality before law

The legal definition of the composition of the prerevolutionary third estate included

everyone who was not a noble or member of the clergy

By July 1794 how had the central government in Paris managed to reassert control over the provinces and gain momentum against the First Coalition

It harnessed the explosive forces of a planned economy, revoluntairy terror, and modern nationalism into a total war effect.

Who forced the king and the royal family to abandons Versailles and return to Paris

Several thousand Parisian women

In the 1780's over 50 percent of Frances annual budget was expended on

interest payments on debt

How did the national assembly respond to the hopes and expectations of saint Domingue's different social groups

it frustrated the hopes of all the different socail group

according to olympe de gouges

men and women should enjoy special rights and privilgies

In the wake of the Great Fear in the summer of 1789, the National Assembly restored order by

abolishing all of the old noble and church privileges'

why did the antifederalist oppose the new American constitution proposed by the constitutional convention

the feared losing individual freedoms for which they had fought

The attack on the Bastille had which political effect?

The king's plan to reassert his authority were forestalled, permitting the national assembly to continue its work

How did French armies during the French Revolution offer a mixed message to the people they conquered

They presented themselves as liberators to the peasants and middle class but seemed more like foreign invaders as they requistitioned food and supplies and plundered local treasure

Which of these was the goal of the committee of public safety

To use dictatorial powers to respond to threats to france from without and within

when liberals in the late eighteenth century called for equality, they were primarily concerned with equality for...

White propertied men

The national assembly that ruled France from 1789 to 1791 passed laws that

broadened women's rights to seek divorce and inherit property

Which factor caused the life and death political struggle between the Girondists ad the mountains

the Girondist were more moderate policies

Which two fundamental principles of the French revolution were incorporated into the Napoleonic code

the equality of all male citizens before law and the absolute security of wealth and private property

The loyalist faction in the American revolution

was primarily wealth and politically moderate

As the Jacobins gained power what was their reaction to women's political activity

The banned all women political activity which they believed to be disorderly and a distraction from women's proper domestic duties

Which statement was true of Napoleon Bonaparte

He won brilliant victories in Italy in 1796 and 1797

after the arrest and deportation of Toussaint L'Ouverte, how was the war of Haitian independence resolved

Jean Jacques Dessalines L'Ouverture's lieutenant, led the resistance to a crushing victory the French and later declared haitan independence

Who wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Man (1790) and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), the latter a founding text of the feminist movement?

Mary Wollstonecraft

How did the reaction of the kings and nobles in continental Europe to the French revolution change over the revolutions' first two years

initially pleased by the revolutions weakening of France they came to feel threatened by its increasingly radical message

The men elected to represent the third estate at the estates General were primarily

lawyers and government officials

The string of French military victories after the winter of 1793-94 was largely due to

patriotism and the superior numbers supplied by the draft

in the summer of 1789 the national assembly was driven toward more radical action by

revoluntary actions of French peasants and the common people of Paris

Between 17889 and 1791, the national assembly legislation to undermine the power of

The catholic Church

Why did the Directory continue French wars of conquest begun by early revolutionary governments?

The directory understood that big, victorious armies kept men employed

How did the delegates to the legislative assembly that convened in October 1971 differ from the delegates to the estates general or national assembly

They were younger and less cautious many joined political clubs


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