AP Euro Chapter 19

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Who wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Man (1790) and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), the latter a founding text of the feminist movement?

Mary Wollstonecraft

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

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

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

Who predicted in Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) that reform like that occurring in France would lead only to chaos and tyranny?

Edmund Burke

Why was France unable to manage its debt in the eighteenth century, even though that debt was much smaller, relative to its population, than the debt of either Greta Britain or Holland?

France lacked a central bank and paper currency

What occurred during the Hundred Days in France?

Napoleon returned from exile to rule France briefly

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

Revolutionary actions of French peasants and the common people of paris

Who forced the king and the royal family to abandon Versailles and return to Paris?

Several thousand Parisian women

Louis XV damaged the sense of his sacred authority by

allowing his common-born mistress to exercise tremendous influence culturally and politically

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

everyone who was not a noble or a member of the clergy

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

revolutionary actions of French peasants and the common people of Paris

The Abbe sieges considered the third estate

the true strength of the French nation

why did great britian seek to raise taxes on its American Colonies in the 1760s

After doubling its national debt in the Seven Years war, Great Britian sought to tax the American colonies to fund the further defense of the colonies

What was Napoleon's Grand Empire?

An enlarged France, a number satellite kingdoms, and the independent but allied states of Austria, Prussia, and Russia

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

declared all men and women to be equal

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

equality before the law

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

According to Olympe de Gouges

men and women should be equal in the eyes of the law

The attack on Bastille had what political effect?

The king's plans to reassert his authority were forestalled, permitting the national assembly to continue its work.

What was the goal of the Committee of Public Safety?

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

Which of the following correctly identifies Napoleon Bonaparte's background?

He won brilliant victories in Italy in 1796 and 1797


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