ch 20 Test
prior to 1788, the French Estates-General last met in
1614
in April 1792 France first declared war on
Austria
the civic religion centered on nature and instituted during the Reign of Terror was the
Cult of the Supreme Being
the government that emerged in France after Robespierre's fall from power was the
Directory
the passage of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy in July 1790 had all of the following negative effects on the Revolution except which one
French Catholics were forced to embrace the Huguenot faith because of the act's portrayal of priests as the Devil's servants
"The National Assembly, considering that it has been summoned to establish the constitution..." this document records an oath of unity taken by members of
French Estates General in opposition to Louis XVI, thus marking the beginning of the French Revolution
the policy extending the French Revolution beyond France's borders was most closely associated with the
Girondin Party
which of the following was not a tradition institution of the Old Regime in France
House of Commons
the more radical element in the National Convention in 1793 was the
Jacobins
Maximilien Robespierre's political philosophy was influenced by The Social Contract of
Jean Jacques Rousseau
what French aristocrat joined the American revolutionary effort in 1777
Lafayette
what French monarch was referred to as the "Liberator" of America
Louis XVI
the noble who participated in the American Revolution and helped organize the National Guard at the beginning of the French Revolution was
Marquis de Lafayette
who of the following was not an economic advisor during the reign of Louis XVI
Marquis de Lafayette
what French chancellor attempted to curb the power of the magistrates and overthrew the Parlement of Paris in 1770
Maupeou
which of the following statements best describes the state of the peasants in the summer of 1789
Misinformation and rumor created chaos in the countryside and the transients further threatened the peasants world
the first stage of the French Revolution was marked by the
Oath of he Tennis Court
the author of the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizen was
Olympe de Gouges
the sequence of events that led to the French Revolution in 1789 is best summarized by which of the following
Royal financial crisis, convening of the Estates General, storming of the Bastille
slave unrest in the French colony of ____ that coincided with the political conflicts of the
Saint Domingue
the agreement discussed above is commonly known as the
Tennis Court Oath
what group forced the royal family to leave Versailles and return to Paris in October 1789
a group of Parisian women
during 1739-94, Robespierre and the Committee of Public Safety owed much of their influence to the support of
a group of small property owners and wage laborers in Paris who were concerned about high food prices
under the Constitution of 1791, who had the right to vote in France
all men who owned sufficient property
Louis XV's poor image with his subjects was the result of his
apathy and ineptitude
assignats were
bonds backed by confiscated Church property that soon assumed the status of banknotes
a major revolutionary ideal spread throughout Europe by the French armies during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods was that
careers should be open to talented individuals from all classes
under the leadership of Sieyes and Mirabeau, the Third Estate decided on 17June 1789 to
change its name to the National Assembly and act independently as an assertion of its true representation of France
following the costly Seven Years' War , aristocratic magistrates attempted to stall increased taxation by
charging the king with attacking liberty itself in his attempt to tax those who were exempt by virtue of their privileged status
to provide for greater control over local interests and thereby avoid anarchy, the National Assembly divided France into
de' partments
Napoleon's primary aim in establishing the Continental System was to
destroy Great Britain's economy
Napoleon's Continental System represented
economic warfare against Britain to ruin a national he could not defeat military
the main purpose of the women's march to Versailles in October 1789 was to
ensure the king's support for the declaration of Rights and cheap bread for Paris
the rallying cry of the second revolution that began in 1792 was
equality
under the Napoleonic system, peasants in territories conquered by the French armies were generally given
freedom from manorial obligations
the armies of revolutionary France enjoyed which of the following advantages over the armies of the major European monarchs
greater patriotism and morale
Cahiers de doleances were
grievances of the people of France that were recorded in notebooks
more than half of the state budget of France in the 1780s was devoted to
interest owed on the state debt
Napoleon's greatest military mistake was his decision to
invade Russia in 1812
which of the following statements accurately describes the Napoleonic Code
it protected private property and the authority of husbands within the family
the storming of the Bastille is significant because
it was an expression of the power of the people to take politics into their own hands
Napoleon in 1799
joined a conspiracy to destroy the Directory, the very government he had helped to save in 1795
the Jacobbins and the sans-culottes would be considered which of the following
left
the French Revolution and Napoleonic period resulted in all of the fundamental changes in France except which one
militarism, nationalism, and power politics were extinguished by constitution remedies and reforms
the fall of Robespierre in July 1792 initiated a new phase of the Revolution characterized by all of the following except which one
more stringent price controls being imposed
the first group to demand that the king recognize the "rights of man", to refer to the king's subjects as "citizens", and to rebuff the king's call for taxes with the cry "no taxation without consent" was the
nobility
the method of voting in the 1614 Estates-General favored the
nobility
in pre-revolutionary France, the magistrates represented the
parlements
Madame de Pompadour, mistress of Louis XV, became the center of public attention because of her
participation in politics and use of the monarchy for personal gain
the French Revolution achieved most in the area of
politics
which of the following was not a problem facing the revolutionary government in the summer of 1791
religious warfare between Catholics and Huguenots
hoping to diminish the power of the aristocracy and decrease its political influence, Louis XIV increased the numbers of the nobility of the
robe
the first political use of the terms "right" and "left" was to describe the
seating arrangements in the French National Assembly chamber during the French Revolution
which of the following was not shared by American and French revolutionaries
similar social and economic backgrounds
one of the chief influences of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars (1789-1815) on Europe outside of France was that they
strengthened German nationalism
the list of grievances, or Cahier De Doleances, brought by the members of the Estates-General to Versailles in 1789 called for
tax equity
the event that brought France to the brink of bankruptcy was France's support of
the American colonists in their War of American Independence
Napoleon's most endured achievement was
the Napoleonic codification of laws
which of the following actions by Napoleon aided the cause of German unification
the elimination of many small states and the political reorganization of territory
which of the following caused the deepest and most persistent internal opposition to the French Revolution
the enactment of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy
which of the following was not an accomplish of the French Revolution up to the summer of 1792
the establishment of a stable constitutional monarchy under Louis XVI
the French Reign of Terror is most closely associated with the
the establishment of the Committee of Public Safety
the calling of the Estates-General in France by King Louis XVI in 1789 was the direct result of
the failure of the Assembly of Notables to endorse the monarch's program of tax reforms
which of the following statements concerning the French society of estates at the outset of Louis XIV's reign is most accurate
the first estate or the clergy consisted of both commoners and nobles, but the aristocracy controlled the bishoprics
which of the following factors led most immediately to the convening of the French Estates- General in May 1789
the impending bankruptcy of the French Government
the Constitution of 1791 became a less- than-credible document in June 1791 when
the king and the royal family attempted to flee, thus deserting the Constitution and the revolutionary cause
the common people included all of the following except which one
the lesser nobility
which of the following best describes the French Third Estate
the non-noble, nonclerical section of the Estates- General
"As historians from Karl Marx through Georges Lefebvre and Albert Soboul have argued..." which of the following views is consistent with the interpretation above
the revolution eliminated guilds, seignorial rights, and other obstacles to French agriculture and industrial advance
what prominent issue divided the Estates within the Estates-General in 1789
the unresolved controversy concerning how the voting was to proceed
which of the following ways did the French nobility at the time of Louis XVI strengthen their powers
they benefited from the doubling of land values
the National Assembly wanted to control eruption of rural violence because
they knew that they had to maintain peace and protect property to stay in power and be credible
which of the following statements concerning guilds within the French society in the 1770s is most accurate
those who worked in crafts were a labor elite, and guilds were intended to protect labor monopolies