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What was the goal of the Committee of Public Safety?
To use dictatorial powers to respond to threats to France from without and within.
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
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The legal definition of the composition of the prerevolutionary Third Estate included
everyone who was not a noble or clergy member
according to olympe de gouge
men and women should be equal in the eyes of the law
the abbe sieyes considered the third estate
the true strength of the french nation
How did the delegates to the Legislative Assembly convened in October of 1791 differ from the delegates to the Estates General?
they were younger and less cautious
How did French armies during the French Revolution offer a mixed message to the people they conquered?
They presented themselves as liberators to the middle/lower class but seemed more like foreign invaders due to their plundering of resources.
Why did member of the National Convention turn against Robespierre on the Ninth of Thermidor?
arrested and killed them
As the Jacobins gained power, what was their reaction to the women's political activity?
banned all of women's political activity
The National Assembly that ruled ruled France from 1789 to 1791 passed laws that
broadened women's rights to seek divorce and inherit property.
By July 1794, how had the central government in Paris manage to reassertion control over the provinces and gain momentum against the First Coalition?
it harnessed the explosive forces of planned economy
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen guaranteed
the abolition of monopolies, guilds, and workers' associations
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
who forced the king and the royal family to abandon versailles and return to paris
serveral thousand parisian women
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
The life-and-death political struggle between the Girondins and the Mountain resulted mainly from
personal hatred and jealousy
the men elected to represent 3rd estate
provincial nobles
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
Why did the Directory continue French wars of conquest begun by early revolutionary governments?
The Directory understood the big, victorious armies kept men employed
Which of the following correctly identifies Napoleon Bonaparte's background
he trained as a lawyer before joining the military
How did the reaction of kings and nobles in continental Europe toward the French Revolution change over the revolution's first two years?ini
initially pleased by revolutions weakening of france,
the string of French military victories after the winter of 1793-1794 was largely due to
patrriotism and the superior numbers supplied by the draft
How did Napoleon consolidate his rule?
He appealed both to disillusioned revolutionaries and members of the d nobility and offered them high posts in the expanding centralized state
In the 1780's, over 50 percent of France's annual budget was expended on...
Interest payments on debt.
How did the National Assembly respond to the hopes and expectations of saint-Domingue's different social groups?
It frustrated the hopes of all the different social groups
What two fundamental principles of the French Revolution were incorporated into the Napleonic Code
The equality of all male citizens before the law and the absolute security of wealth and private 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
