Chp 20

Which of the following correctly identifies Napoleon Bonaparte's background

He trained as a lawyer before joining the military

The National Assembly that ruled ruled France from 1789 to 1791 passed laws that

broadened women's rights to seek divorce and inherit property.

What was the goal of the Committee of Public Safety

To use dictorial powers to respond to threats to France from without and within

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 social groups.

What occurred during the Hundred Days in France

Napoleon returned from exile to rule France breifly

The attack on the Bastille had what political effect

The king's plans to reassert his authority were forestalled, permitting the National Assembly to continue its work

What does Abbe de sieyes say about the third estate

The third estate contains everything that pertains to the nation, and thus it is everything, the true strength of the nation

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen guaranteed

the abolition of monopolies, guilds, and workers' associations

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

Napoleon Bonaparte was born

Corsica

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

The Directory understood the big, victorious armies kept men employed

What was the economic effect of Napoleon's Continental System

French artisans and the middle class suffered, for they were economically damaged by the blockade of Great Britian

What two fundamental principles of the French Revolution were incorporated into the Napleonic Code

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

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

everyone who was not a noble or member of the clergy

In the summer of 1789, the National Assembly was driven toward more radical action by

Maximilien de Robespierre's brilliant rhetoric

How did Napoleon consolidate his rule

He appealed both to disillusioned revolutionaries and members of the old nobility and offered them high poss in the expanding centralized state