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Which of the following most likely contributed to France's desire to ally with the American Colonies?

Colonial and economic rivalry among European powers

Which of the following documents served the same essential purpose as the cahiers did for the French Revolution?

a. Martin Luther's 95 Theses for the Reformation

The cahiers de doléances called for

a. abolishing the fiscal privileges of the church and nobility.

21. Jean-Paul Marat was murdered during which historic event?

b. The Reign of Terror

All of the following are true about Napoleon and his career before 1799 except

b. he made rapid progress and achieved the status of a general even before the Revolution.

Olympe de Gouges

c. wrote The Declaration of the Rights of the Woman and the Citizen.

A successful slave rebellion against French rule occurred in

d. Haiti.

Napoleon met his final defeat at the Battle of

e. Waterloo

In 1789, the Estates-General was

E. divided over the issue of voting by "orders" or by "head."

The Third Estate was composed of all of the following except

E. the clergy

Just prior to the Revolution in France, the number of the poor in France

b. went up significantly.

Which of the following was not one of the intended outcomes of this law?

c. Advancing political liberty to the working class

On July 4, 1776, the delegates of the Second Continental Congress approved

c. the Declaration of Independence.

By convening the Estates General in 1789,

c. the government all but conceded to the sovereignty of the people in their own taxation.

Which of the following aspects of the Napoleonic Code shows the greatest contradiction to the teachings of the Enlightenment?

d. "Married persons cannot derogate from the rights resulting from the power of the husband over the persons of his wife and of his children..."

The defeat of General Cornwallis and his army at Yorktown in 1781, leading to British abandonment of the Revolutionary War, was achieved by

e. a combined American and French army supported by a heavily armed French fleet.

The American Revolution affected Europeans by

D. proving that the ideas of the Enlightenment could be realized politically.

The controversy over voting by order versus voting by head in the Estates-General saw

E the Third Estate respond by forming a "National Assembly."

The alliance between France and the American Colonies, and the ensuing American victory, most directly contributed to which of the following events?

a. The French Revolution

Which of the following revolutions experienced a similar event as the one depicted in the image, also leading to an eventual successful overthrow of the Monarchy?

a. The Russian Revolution

27. Which of the following events most directly led to the establishment of this treaty?

a. The defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Nations.

Which of the following reforms did Napoleon believe would not only help stabilize France, but allow it to progress?

a. The lycees

Which features of government established by The Constitution of 1791, created during the first phase of the Revolution, best fulfilled the ideas in the Declaration?

a. The mostly symbolic role given to the monarchy.

Which of the following best describes Napoleon's goal as reflected in the excerpt of the Napoleonic Code above?

a. To benefit the common good.

The most immediate cause of the French Revolution was

a. the government's failure to resolve its debts and other economic problems.

During the early stages of the "Radical Revolution," the National Convention

a. was controlled by the Mountain, which defeated the less radical Girondins.

The French revolutionary slogan neatly evoking the ideals of the rebellion was

b. "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity!"

Which of the following best describes Napoleon's rule as reflected in the Napoleonic Code?

b. Enlightened Despot

The German philosopher who initially welcomed the French Revolution, turned against it, becoming instead an advocate of a German national spirit was

b. Fichte.

Of the following, which is the correct sequencing of the French Estate system?

b. First Estate - high and low Clergy; Second Estate - Nobility; Third Estate - everyone else

Which of the following is not true of the French revolutionary republican calendar?

b. Most Christian holidays were kept.

Which of the following represents the Revolutionary response to the issues in the document?

b. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

Napoleon's education system is a reflection of the policies of which of the following earlier European rulers?

b. The Medicis in Florence

The French monarchy most directly contributed to which of the following events leading up to the Revolution for American independence?

b. The Seven Years War

Which of the following events most directly led to the event depicted in the above image?

b. The rapid inflation in France caused by a drought and the economic troubles of the country.

In September of 1792, the National Convention

b. abolished the monarchy and established a republic.

The chief accomplishment of the National Convention was

b. preservation of the revolution from being destroyed by foreign enemies.

Napoleon's Continental System tried to defeat the British by

b. preventing British trade.

In France, the First Estate was composed of

b. the clergy

A key conduit of "enlightened" American political and moral ideas back to Europe was formed by

b. the hundreds of literate and influential French army and navy officers who had fought on the American side during the Revolutionary War.

The treaty of Paris was primarily designed

b. to reestablish a balance of power in Europe and thus a lasting peace.

Which of the following statements best applies to Napoleon's domestic policies?

c. His Civil Code reaffirmed the ideals of the Revolution while creating a uniform legal system.

This law was most inspired by which of the following philosophies?

c. Laissez-Faire

The head of the Committee of Public Safety who presided over the terror in France in 1793 and 1794 was

c. Robespierre.

Which of the following most directly led to the issuing of the Tennis Court Oath?

c. The Meeting of the Estates General

Which of the following is a central demand of the Third Estate in the above excerpt?

c. The creation of a Constitutional Monarchy with fairer representation for commoners.

Which of the following aspects of 18th Century France is most reflected in the cahiers?

c. The feudal social structure of France.

Sieyès wrote "What is the Third Estate?" to support the political demands of the

c. common people.

The Constitution of the United States of 1789

c. created a republic in which the branches of government provided checks on one another.

The French Republic's army in the 1790s

c. fueled modern nationalism and was raised through total mobilization of the population.

All of the following were accomplished by the National/Constituent Assembly except the

c. legal defense of seigneurial rights throughout the country.

In the French Constitution of 1791, who had the right to vote?

c. male citizens who met a tax qualification

Not among the factors in the defeat of Napoleon was

c. mass reactions to his brutal suppression of local customs in the conquered countries.

Compared to the American Revolution, the French Revolution was

c. more influential in Europe as a model of rebellion.

In regard to the Catholic Church, the National Assembly

c. passed legislation that secularized church offices and clergymen.

The King's fortress in Paris, which a mob stormed on July 14, 1789, touching off a wave of riots throughout France, was

c. the Bastille.

In the summer of 1789, when the "revolution of the lawyers" appeared doomed by imminent royal use of armed force, the Revolution as a whole was saved by

c. the intervention of armed commoners, especially in urban uprisings.

In regard to religion, the National Convention

c. took measures to de-christianize the republic.

This law reflects which of the following trends in Western Europe?

d. A decrease in restrictions on labor

In 1792, the Legislative Assembly declared war on

d. Austria.

17. The ideas of which of the following philosophers are most clearly reflected in #6 above?

d. Rousseau

The passage clearly shows Metternich's opposition to which of the following?

d. The Enlightenment

According to Napoleon's account, his religious beliefs align most with which of the following?

d. The Hohenzollern Dynasty in Prussia

The Treaty of Paris can be most closely aligned with which of the following other peace agreements?

d. The Peace of Westphalia

What event did these words lead to in pre-Revolutionary France?

d. The formation of the National Assembly

The government of the Directory in the period of the Thermidorean Reaction

d. increasingly had to rely on military support for its survival.

When the government called for the Estates General to meet,

d. it doubled the number of representatives from the Third Estate.

As one measure of the French crown's terrible financial predicament, by 1788 the interest payments on the state debt alone amounted to

d. one-half of all government spending.

Which of the following statements best applies to Napoleon?

a. He was both a child of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.

The colonists won their war for independence due to

a. generous military and financial aid from various European states, especially France.

The French economy of the eighteenth century was

a. growing due to an expansion of foreign trade and industrial production.

The chief reason for Napoleon's fast rise to power was/were his

a. series of stunning victories over the enemies of France.

In the Concordat of 1801, Napoleon made peace with

a. the Church.

The passage is a reflection of which of the following ideologies?

b. Conservatism

During the Reign of Terror, the majority of the victims were

d. peasant and laboring classes.

A prominent writer who denounced Napoleon's despotic rule was

e. Germaine de Stael.

What group emerged as the most important radical element in French politics, at the beginning of the French Revolution?

e. Jacobins

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen guaranteed

B. equality under the law for all French men.

By the eighteenth century, the French bourgeoisie and nobility were

increasingly less distinguishable from each other.