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