AP test ch 19

National Assembly

The first French revolutionary legislature, made up of primarily of representatives of the third estate and if you from the nobility in clergy, in session from 1789 to 1791

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.

The national assembly that ruled France from 1789 to 1791 pass laws that

Brought in the woman's rights to seek divorce and inherit property

The mountain

Goodbye Robespierre, the French national conventions radical faction, which seized legislative power in 1793

Which of the following correctly identifies Napoleon Bonaparte background

He wants brilliant victories in Italy and 1796 and 1797

How did the reaction of kings and nobles and conventional Europe toward the French revolution change over the revolutions first two years

Initially pleased by the revolutions weakening of France, they came to feel threatened by its increasingly radical message

The attack on the Bastille had what political affect

The kings 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

In the 18 century many liberal thinkers believe that representative institutions could defend the liberty and interest of the people what did this mean in terms of political practice

Voting for representatives will be restricted to men of property

How did America is constitutional convention of 1787 deal with the discord between pro and anti-slavery delegates

A compromise by stipulating that and enslaved person would count as 3/5 of a person for purposes of taxation and proportional representation in the House of Representatives

Estates general

A legislative body in pre-revolutionary France made up of representatives of each of three classes, or state; it was called into session in 1789 for the first time since 1614

Who predicted it in the reflections on the revolution in France that reform like that occurring in France would lead only to chaos and tyranny

Edmund Burke

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.

Estates

The three legal categories, orders, offenses in habitants; the clergy, the nobility, and everyone else

The Abbé Sieyès considered the third estate

The true strength of the French nation

What was the economic affects of napoleons continental system

French artisans and the middle class suffered, for they were economically damaged by the blockade of Great Britain

Second revolution

From 1792 to 1795 the second phase of the French revolution during which the fall of the French monarchy introduced a rapid radicalization of politics

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.

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

Grand empire

The empire over which Napoleon and his allies world, encompassing virtually all of Europe except Great Britain and Russia

What to 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

Girondists

A moderate group that fought for control of the national convention in 1793

Jacobin club

A political club in revolutionary France his members were well educated radical Republicans

Why was France unable to manage it stay in the 18th century, even though that that was much smaller, relative to it population, then the debt of either Great Britain or Holland

France lack a central bank and paper currency

By July in 1794, how hard the central government in Paris manage to reassert control over the provinces and gain momentum against the first coalition

It harnessed the explosive forces of a planned economy revolutionary terror in modern nationalism into a total war affect

After the arrest and deportation of Toussaint L'Ouverture, How was the war of Haitian independence resolved

Jean-Jacques Dessalines, L'Ouvertures lieutenant, Went to the resistance to a crushing victory over the French in later declared Haitian independence

The man elected to represent the third to stay at the estates general were primarily

Lawyers and government officials

How did it the concordat resolve the crisis over Catholicism in France and the Napoleonic era

The Catholic Church gain the right to practice religion freely, while the French state gained a greater control over the nomination of church officers Nd church activities

Why did the directory continue French wars of conquest begun by early revolutionary governments?

The Directory understood that big, victorious armies kept men employed

How did the delegates to the legislative assembly that covened in October 1791 different from the delegates to the estates general/national assembly

They were younger and less cautious; many join political clubs

Thermidorian reaction

A reaction to the violence of the reign of terror in 1794, resulting in the execution of Robespierre in the loosening of economic controls

Reign of terror

The period from 1793 to 1794 during which a Robespierre's committee of public safety tried and executed thousands suspected of treason in the new revolutionary culture was imposed

As the Jacobins gained power, what was their reaction to woman's political activity

They banned all woman's political activity, which they believed to be disorderly and a distraction from women's proper domestic duties

Why did members of the national convention turn against Robespierre on the ninth of Thermidor

They believe the Robespierre might soon have them arrested and executed

How did French armies during the French revolution offer A mixed message to the people they conquered

They presented themselves as liberators to the peasants and middle class but seemed more like foreign invaders as they requisitioned food and supplies and plundered local treasure.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Who wrote a vindication of the rights of man and a vindication of the rights of woman, the latter of founding text of the feminist movement

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

The loyalist faction in the American revolution

tended to be wealthy and politically moderate.

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

Several thousand Parisian women

Why did the French commissioners in Saint- Dominguez abolish slavery in 1793

They were desperate to rally the rebel slaves to the French cause against the Spanish and English forces on the island

Napoleonic code

French Civil Code promulgated in 1804 that reasserted the 1789 principles of the equality of all male citizens before the law and the absolute security of wealthy and private property as well as a restriction of rights according to women by previous revolutionary laws

Why did the anti-federalist oppose the new American Constitution proposed by the constitutional convention

They feared for the individual freedoms for which they had fought

Continental system

A blocking imposed by Napoleon to haul or trade between continental Europe and Britain thereby weakening the British economy and military

In the 1780s, over 50% of France's in your budget was expended on

Interest payments on the debt

The declaration of the rights of man and of the Citizen guaranteed

equality before the law

The legal definition of the composition of the pre-revolutionary third estate included

everyone who was not a noble or member of the clergy

According to Olympe de Gouges,

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

Louis XV damage the sense of his secret authority by

Allowing his common born mistress to exercise tremendous influence culturally and politically

What was Napoleon's grand empire

An enlarged France in several satellite kingdoms, on the thrones of which Napoleon placed members of his family

What occurred during the hundred days in France

Napoleon return from exile to rule France briefly

The string of French military victories after the winter of 1793-94 old largely to

Patriotism and the superior number supplied by the draft

What cause the life and death political struggle between the Girondists in the mountain

the Girondists radical economic and social policies

Sans-culottes

Delivering poor of Paris, so called because the man of war trousers instead of the knee breaches of the aristocracy and middle-class; the word it came to refer to the militant radicals of the city

How did the national assembly respond to the hopes and expectations of Saint-Domingues different social groups

It frustrated the hopes of all the different social groups.

Great fear

The fear of noble reprisals against peasant uprisings that sees the French countryside and lead to further revolt