Chapter 19 Ap Euro
The abbé sieyés considered the third estate...
The true strength of the French nation.
According to Olympe de Gouges,
men and women should be equal in the eyes of the law
Who forced the king and the royal family to abandon Versailles and return to Paris?
Several thousand Persian women
Louis XV damaged the sense of his sacred authority by...
Allowing his common-born mistress to exercise tremendous influence culturally and politically.
The declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen guaranteed....
Equality before the law
The legal definition of the the composting on of the prerevolutionary third estate included...
Everyone who was not a noble or a member of the clergy.
How did the reaction of kings and nobles in continental Europe toward the French Revolution change over the revolution's first two years?
Initially pleased by the revolution's weakening of France, they came to feel threatened by its increasingly radical message.
In the 1780s, over 50 percent of France's annual budget was expanded on...
Interest payments on the debt
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, revolutionary terror, and modern nationalism into a total war effort.
Who wrote a vandication of the rights of man(1790) and a vandication of the rights of women (1792), the latter a founding text of feminist movement?
Mary Wollstonecraft
The attack on the bastille has what political effect?
The King's plan to reassert his authority were forestalled, permitting the National Assembly to continue its work.
As the Jacobins gained power, what was their reaction to women's political activity?
They banned all women's political activity, which they believed to be disorderly and a distraction from women's proper domestic duties.
What was the goal of the committee of public safety?
To use doctoral powers to respond to threats to France from without and within
Why did the Directory continue French wars of conquest begun by early revolutionary governments?
The directory understood that big, victorious armies kept men employed.
In the 18th century, many liberal thinkers believed that representative institutions could defend the liberty and interest of the people. What did this mean in terms of political practice?
Voting for representatives would be restricted to men of property.
