French Revolution

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Which of the following correctly characterized the response of various religious perspectives to Nicolaus Copernicus hypothesis:

Protestants rejected Copernicus's idea that the earth moved, while the Catholic Church largely overlooked his theory until declaring it false in the 17th century.

Abbe Sieyes considered the third estate

The true strength of the French nation

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

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

According to Olympe de Gourges

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

Olympe de Gouges arguments concerning monarchy most closely reflect the principles of:

Liberals during the first phase of the French Revolution

How did the delegates to the Legislative Assembly that convened in Oct. 1791 differ from the delegates to the Estates General/National Assembly

they were younger and less cautious, many joined political clubs.

Which of the following places the governments of the French revolution in the correct chronological order

estates general, national assembly, legislative assembly, national convention, directory, consulate

The participation of women such as poissades led to which of the following:

Temporary improvements in women's legal status

Why was France unable to manage its debt in the eighteenth century, even though that debt was much smaller, relative to its population, than the debt of either Great Britain or Holland

France lacked a central bank and currency.

What two 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

Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792) was the first book published in Great Britain to

openly advocate full political equality for woman

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of 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

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

interest payments on the debt

How did the National Assembly respond to the hopes and expectations of Saint Domingue social groups

it frustrated the hopes of all the different social groups

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

voting for representatives would be restricted to men of property

What was the economic effect of Napoleon's Continental System

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

How did the reaction of kings and nobles in continental Europe toward the French Revolution change over the revolution's first two years?

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

The men elected to represent the third estate at the estates general were primarily

Bourgeoisie

The Bastille was a symbol of royal power because

It had housed political prisoners

Who wrote a vindication of the rights of men and a vindication of the rights of women then later founding a text of the feminist movement

Mary Wollstonecraft

What occurred during the Hundred Days

Napoleon returned from exile to rule France briefly

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

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

Several thousand Parisian women

What caused the life-and-death political struggle between the Girondists and the Mountain

The Girondists' more moderate policies

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

The directory understood that big, victorious armies kept men employed.

The attack on the Bastille had what political effect?

The king's plans to reassert his authority were forestalled, permitting the national assembly to continue its work

Why did members of the National Convention turn against Robespierre on the ninth of Thermidor

They believed that Robespierre might soon have them arrested and executed

What was the goal of the committee of public safety

To use dictatorial powers to respond to threats to France from without and within

Which would have most influenced de gouges beliefs?

Women's passionate participation in the early stages of the revolution

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

In historical and critical dictionary Pierre Bayle demonstrated that

all knowledge can be questioned and doubted

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

that broadened womens rights

How did the Concordat resolve the crisis over Catholicism in France in the Napoleonic era

the Catholic Church gained the right to practice religion freely while the French state gained greater control over the nomination of the Church officers and Church activities

Which of the following best describes the sans culottes

they consisted of the working class people of Paris


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