Hist ch5-19

Why did Great Britain seek to raise taxes on its American colonies in the 1760s?

after doubling its national debt in the Seven Years War, Great Britain sought to tax the American colonies to fund the further defense of the colonies

Why did members of the National Convention turn against Robespierre on the Ninth of Thermidor? (They believed that Robespierre _______________)

might soon have them arrested and executed

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

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

What was the goal of the Committee of Public Safety?

to use dictatorial powers to respond to threats to France from without and within

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 Britain

Why was the Declaration of Independence so important to the American Revolution?

It universalized the traditional rights of English people and made them the rights of all mankind

How did America's Constitutional Convention of 1787 deal with the discord between pro and anti-slavery delegates?

It compromised by stipulating than an enslaved person would count as three-fifths of a person for purposes of taxation and proportional representation in the House of Representatives

After the arrest and deportation of Toussaint L'Ouverture, how was the war of Haitian Independence resolved?

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

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

equality before the law

How did Napoleon consolidate his rule?

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