Chapter 26
The Jacobins in France's National Assembly
favored the institution of egalitarian democracy.
A laissez-faire economic policy, by definition, favors
free trade.
Despite her belief that "your sex are naturally tyrannical," Abigail Adams' letter to her husband, John Adams, argued that men who "wish to be happy" should alter their relationship towards women by changing the role of "master" to
friend
The nudity in this depiction of Paolina Borghese was intended by Canova to
demonstrate his artistic skills as equal to those of Classical sculptors.
According to Mary Wollstonecraft, women "must ever languish like exotics, and be reckoned beautiful flaws in nature" if
deprived of liberty.
Although the French and the American revolutions differed in many ways, both
looked to Classical antiquity for models on which to build a new society.
People in the African diaspora were best able to preserve their
music.
Private letters between which statesman and his wife warned that, "we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation"?
John Adams
Napoleon's final defeat was achieved by
the English and Prussians at Waterloo, Belgium.
Napoleon's rise to power began with a coup d'état against
the French Directory
In this presentation of Washington, which feature emphasizes his position as "father of the fatherland"?
the contrapposto pose and facial expression of gravitas
Which feature of David's epic history painting, despite its overall Neoclassical style, relates more specifically to Baroque conventions?
the grouping of the women to the right
In France, the events leading to revolution were most directly brought about by
the national debt.
Which details in this portrayal of Marat emphasize the theme of self-sacrifice? (Jacques-Louis David, THE DEATH OF MARAT, 1793)
the position of the right arm and note regarding payment of assignat
Napoleon is associated with the emperor Charlemagne in this portrait by
the sword and ivory hand of justice on his left.
The primary purpose of Jacques-Louis David's Napoleon Crossing the Saint-Bernard was
to create a myth as pure propaganda.
Which nation profited most from the slave trade?
England
Why did sympathizers of the French Revolution closely identify Jacques-Louis David's The Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons with the cause of the French Republic?
It alluded to tensions between personal sacrifice and priorities of the state.
Which is true of Pierre-Charles L'Enfant's plan for the capitol in Washington, D.C.?
It superimposed diagonal avenues, connecting public squares, upon an orthogonal street grid.
Who is credited with fashioning the main points of what would become the liberal feminist agenda?
Mary Wollstonecraft
Operating during the Reign of Terror, The Committee for Public Safety was instigated by
Maximilien Robespierre.
Which statement best represents a call for fundamental political as well as social reconstruction to achieve women's rights?
Olympe de Gouges: "The principle of all sovereignty rests essentially with the nation, which is nothing but the union of woman and man; no body and no individual can exercise any authority which does not come expressly from it [the nation]."
Apart from Britain and Sweden, which European country remained free of Napoleon's domination?
Portugal
While portraying an actual event in the life of Brook Watson, how is a controversial sub-theme suggested in Copley's image?
The slave holding the rope, or lifeline, and sharks relate to the subject of slavery.
Who proposed a land ordinance that effectively installed a Neoclassical pattern on the American landscape?
Thomas Jefferson
Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman represented
a criticism of Rousseau's traditional view of women's roles.
Angelica Kauffmann achieved unprecedented success as
a female history painter.
Arguing for a new republicanism, Thomas Paine published Common Sense in January 1776, advocating
a new government with a chief of state who was not a monarch.
Adam style refers to
an architectural design developed in England.
After being kidnapped as a child and enslaved in a household in Boston, Phillis Wheatley
became the first black American to publish a book.
The Estates General that King Louis XVI was forced to convene on May 5, 1789, was comprised of representatives of the
clergy, nobility, bourgeoisie, and peasants.
In his best-selling autobiography, published in England in 1789, Olaudah Equiano described
conditions on board a transatlantic slave ship.
Both Mary Wollstonecraft and Olympe de Gouges broadened the agenda of the Enlightenment by
demanding equal rights for women.
What was the largest colonial American city at the time a separation from Britain was declared?
philadelphia
North American slaveholders grouped Africans of differing backgrounds together in order to
reduce the possibility of rebellion.
For writing that the future government of France should be determined by popular referendum, not by the National Convention, Olympe de Gouges was
sent to the guillotine
In this representation of Napoleon, Canova depicts the emperor nude to
show him as the modern embodiment of the god of war.
The term jasperware refers to
stoneware featuring white relief ornamentation on colored ground.
In Monticello, Thomas Jefferson departs from a Neoclassical style in his use of
tall, narrow windows.
Commissioned by Napoleon to commemorate his victories and the glory of his rule, Pierre-Alexandre Vignon's La Madeleine
was built on a north-south axis and has sixty-three-foot-high Corinthian columns.