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Who became king of France after Napoleon was exiled? Louis XVIII Georges Danton Joseph Guillotin Joseph Bonaparte
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Who was the leader of the Committee of Public Safety? Maximilien Robespierre Louis XVI Napoleon Bonaparte Abbé Siey è s
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Choose all that apply. What contributed to France's financial crisis in the late 1700s? the lavish spending of the royal court aid given to the U.S. colonists the construction of the Eiffel Tower the storming of the Bastille
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Select all issues that led to the French Revolution. resentment toward French monarchy an economic crisis in France resentment toward social structures heavy taxation of the business owners exemption from taxes for the working class
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Choose all that apply. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen _____. declared that women have the right to hold public office declared freedom of speech, press, and religion was modeled after the U.S. Declaration of Independence was signed by Louis XVI
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During the French Revolution, radicals _____. wanted moderate reforms wanted to maintain the French monarchy wanted to establish a French republic believed that the revolution had gone too far
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Olympe de Gouges wrote a "Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen" in 1791, declaring that women were also citizens and should have rights equal to those of men. She was then_________________. elected to office admonished to stop writing confined to her home and guarded executed by the guillotine
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The 1791 French constitution limited the powers of the _____. National Convention Committee of Public Safety Estates General French monarch
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The storming of the Bastille occurred _____. before the meeting of the Estates General after the Reign of Terror after the Directory was established after members of the third estate declared themselves to be the National Assembly
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What currently practiced ideology has its roots in the French Revolution? democracy capitalism Marxism socialism
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Why did Louis XVI call a meeting of the Estates General? to decide how much money to lend the U.S. colonists to write a constitution to draft the Napoleonic Code to discuss France's tax system
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The French middle class and peasantry belonged to the Estate.
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