Ch 21 Quiz

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen guaranteed all of the following EXCEPT

economic equality

The legal definition of the composition of the prerevolutionary Third Estate included

everyone who was not a noble or member of the clergy

The ____________ marked the advent of the second revolution.

fall of the monarchy

In the 1780s, more than 50 percent of France's annual budget was expended on

interest payments on the debt

The men elected to represent the Third Estate at the Estates General were primarily

lawyers and government officials

The reign of terror ended when

members of the Convention, afraid Robespierre would turn the Terror on them, had him arrested and executed.

All of the following were considered members of the Third Estate EXCEPT

nuns

According to the text, in the summer of 1789 the National Assembly was driven toward more radical action by

revolutionary actions by French peasants and the common people of Paris.

The tennis court oath was

sworn by renegade delegates from the Estates General, most of them from the Third Estate.

The grievance petitions from all three Estates called for all of the following EXCEPT

An American style republic

The Reign of Terror was directed primarily at

Any and all enemies of the revolution

Napoleon defeated Austria and Russia at the Battle of ___________ in 1805.

Austerlitz

___________, Russia, and Sweden joined with Britain to form the Third Coalition against France.

Austria

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

Broaden women's rights to seek divorce and inherit property

The __________ system was meant to exclude British goods from the continent.

Continental

____________ captured conservative opinion on the Revolution in his Reflections on the Revolution in France.

Edmund Burke

The American Revolution had its immediate origins in struggles over

Increased taxes

Which of the following occurred FIRST?

Napoleon overthrown the directory

During the Hundred Days

Napoleon returned from exile to rule France briefly.

According to the text, the string of French military victories after the winter of 1793-1794 was largely due to

Patriotism and the superior numbers supplied by the draft

During the Reign of Terror, the dominant person on the Committee of Public Safety was

Robespierre

Napoleon's invasion of __________ began in June 1812.

Russia

The first great revolt against the Grand Empire occurred in ___________ in 1808.

Spain

All of the following were true of the French clergy on the eve of the French Revolution EXCEPT

They were under the complete control of the papacy

The committee of public safety was

an emergency executive committee appointed by the Convention.