History 102 - Chapter 19 Quiz
Which of the following best describes the political system of Napoleon?
Napoleon frequently violated civil liberties by censoring newspapers, creating a spy system, and holding political suspects in state prisons.
During the Hundred Days?
Napoleon returned from exile to rule France briefly.
Who forced the king and the royal family to abandon Versailles and return to Paris?
Several thousand Parisian women
How did the Concordat resolve the crisis over Catholicism in France?
The Catholic Church gained the right to practice religion freely, while the French state gained greater control over the nomination of church officers and church activities.
How did the French armies offer a mixed message to the people whom they conquered?
The armies presented themselves as liberators to the peasants and middle class, but also lived off of the land, requisitioning food and supplies and plundering local treasure.
By July 1794, how had the central government in Paris managed to reassert control over the provinces and gain momentum against the First Coalition?
The central government harnessed the explosive forces of a planned economy, revolutionary terror, and modern nationalism into a total war effort.
What two fundamental principles of the Revolution were codified into the Napoleonic Code?
The equality of all male citizens before the law and the absolute security of wealth and private property.
What was the political effect of the attack on the Bastille?
The king's plans to reassert his authority was forestalled, permitting the National Assembly to continue its work.
Why did the conflict between the monarchy and the Parlement re-emerge after the Seven Years' War?
The monarchy sought to retain emergency taxes after the war ended.
As the Jacobins gained power, what was their reaction to women's political activity?
They banned all women's political clubs and societies.
Why did members of the Convention turn against Robespierre on 9 Thermidor?
They believed that Robespierre might soon have them arrested and executed.
Why did the French commissioners in Saint-Domingue abolish slavery?
They were desperate to rally the rebel slaves to the French cause against the Spanish and English forces on the island.
How did the delegates to the Legislative Assembly that convened in October 1791 differ from the delegates to the Estates General/National Assembly?
They were younger and less cautious; many of them joined political clubs.
What was the goal of the Committee of Public Safety?
To use dictatorial powers to respond to threats to France from without and within
According to the text, the Directory continued French wars of conquest begun by early revolutionary governments?
because big, victorious armies kept men employed.
The National Assembly that ruled France from 1789 to 1791 passed laws that?
broadened women's rights to seek divorce and inherit property.
How did the reaction of kings and nobles in continental Europe toward the 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 message.
On what basis have revisionist historians rejected the traditional interpretation that the French Revolution has its origins in growing tensions between the nobility and the bourgeoisie?
Both the nobility and the bourgeoisie were riddled with internal rivalries that precluded identifying these two groups as unified blocs opposing each other.
The National Assembly granted religious freedom to?
French Protestants, and Jews.
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.
All of the following correctly characterize events in the Vendée region of Brittany except?
Great Britain attempted an invasion backed by peasant revolutionaries.
Why did Great Britain seek to raise taxes on its American colonies in the 1760s?
Great Britain expected the American colonies to help pay for the expenses incurred during the Seven Years' War.
Which of the following incorrectly identifies Napoleon's background?
He gained training as a lawyer before joining the military.
The legal definition of the composition of the prerevolutionary 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.
According to Olympe de Gouges?
men and women should be equal in the eyes of the law.
In the Tennis Court Oath, delegates to the National Assembly swore?
not to disband until they had written a new constitution.
According to the text, the French military victories after the winter of 1793-1794 were largely due to?
patriotism and the superior numbers supplied by the draft.
The National Assembly instituted all of the following reforms except?
recognizing women as holding full civil rights.
According to the text, 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.
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.
Vincent Ogé?
was a free man of color in Saint-Domingue who led a failed revolt.