French Revolution and Economic and Social Changes Quiz
Voting in the estates general called in 1789 to address the impending financial crisis
by estate
Which of the following was the most important factor behind the Price Revolution of the sixteenth century?
steady population growth and rising food costs
The competitive advantaged of the putting-out system included all of the following EXCEPT
support of the guilds
Improvements associated with the Agricultural revolution of the Seventeenth and eighteenth centuries began in
the Low Countries and Britain
The Declaration of the Right of Man and Citizen proclaimed all the following EXCEPT
the emancipation of women
The cahiers de doleances presented to the king included all of the following grievances EXCEPT criticism of:
the institution of monarchy as a whole
All of the following were innovations during the Industrial Revolution EXCEPT
the manufacture of steel
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy
the placed the Catholic Church under state control
The major breakthrough in energy and power supplies that catalyzed the Industrial Revolution was
James Watt's steam engine, developed and marketed between the 1760s and the 1780s
The assignats of the French Revolutionary era were:
Paper currency backed by church lands
As Great Britain developed economically after 1750, it required all of the following EXCEPT
a greater percentage of people employed in agriculture
Historians attribute the "population explosion" of the eighteenth century primarily to
a more abundant food supply
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
Lord Charles Townsend is famous for his
advocacy of scientific farming
The "Tennis Court Oath" that was taken by the members of the new National Assembly at Versailles in 1789
defied royal authority
According to Olympe de Gouges,
men and women should be equal in the eyes of the law
The problems of the French monarchy in the late eighteenth century included all of the following EXCEPT
no male heir
The women's march on versailles October 5, 1789 was a crucial turning point in the french revolution because it
placed the king and assembly under the pressure of the Paris crowd
The Game Laws exemplified what aspect of eighteenth-century social life in Britain?
preferential treatment for aristocrats
The Old Regime (ancien regime) refers to the period
prior to 1789
Sumptuary laws
required people of different classes to distinguish themselves by their dress
The sequences of events that led to the French Revolution of 1789 is best summarized by which of the following
royal financial crisis, convening of the Estates General, storming of the Bastille
The Bastille in Paris was stormed on July 14, 1789
to seize arms to defend against royal reprisals
Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Female Citizen
was ignored entirely by the males in the National Assembly who did little to improve the lot of women in French society
The Corvee
was involuntary forced labor imposed on French peasants
The major eighteenth-century mercantile rivalries concerned
England, Netherlands, and France
Important prerequisites for Great Britain's industrialization in the mid-eighteenth century included which of the following?
Innovations in agricultural techniques and increases in food production
The enclosure movement is best described by which statement?
The fencing off of lands without regard for the holdings of the peasants.
Abbe Sieyes' answer to the question "What is the Third Estate?" was tat it was
The true strength of the French nation
By which of the following ways did the aristocracy attempt to limit the influence of the Third Estate?
They demanded that each estate have an equal number of representatives
