AP Euro Review for Test

In 1792 the Legislative Assembly declared war on

Austria

Napoleon was born in

Corsica, 1769

Countries in the coalitions that opposed Revolutionary and Napoleonic France were most eager to adopt which provision of the decree?

Countries in the coalitions that opposed Revolutionary and Napoleonic France were most eager to adopt the creation of nationally based mass conscript armies

Where was Napoleon exiled to first?

Elba

Why did Napoleon lose respect for his father?

His dad worked with the French after they took over Corsica and Napoleon saw this as weakness and started to see his father as a traitor in a way

The leader of the Congress of Vienna was

Klemens von Metternich

The French revolutionary slogan neatly evoking the ideals of the rebellion was

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity!

Congress of Vienna

Meeting of representatives of European monarchs called to reestablish the old order after the defeat of Napoleon/ created policies that would maintain the European balance of power

Which of the following statements best applies to Napoleon?

Napoleon was both a child of the Enlightenment and of the French Revolution

Why was Napoleon considered a "Child of the Enlightenment and French Revolution?

Napoleon was considered the son of the Enlightenment and of the French Rev because he promoted some of the ideas/aims of the revolution (destroying "absolute monarchy"). Napoleon was simultaneously a traditional monarch, embracing all the pomp and formalities of the monarchic customs, and a revolutionary, bringing sweeping-and lasting- changes to the regions under his rule.

Which of the following statements best applies to Napoleon's domestic policies?

Napoleon's civil code reaffirmed the ideals of the Revolution while creating a uniform legal system

The head of the Committee of Public Safety who presided over the terror in France in 1793 and 1794 was

Robespierre

Which of the following is not true of the French revolutionary republican calendar?

TRUE: consisted three ten day weeks, no efforts to enforce it, meant to signal a new beginning for the nation NOT TRUE: included all most christian holidays

The King's fortress in Paris, which a mob stormed on July 14, 1789, touching off a wave of riots throughout France, was

The Bastille

In considering the revolutionary era, which of the following is not true?

The French Revolution was less complex, less violent, and far less radical than the American Revolution

Which of the following were major themes/subjects of Romantic artists?

The most important form of literary expression for the Romantics was poetry

Metternich's "principle of legitimacy" refers to

The restoration of legitimate monarchs who would preserve traditional institutions

Napoleon met his final defeat at the Battle of

Waterloo

The Romantic movement can be viewed as

a reaction against the Enlightenment's preoccupation with reason

In September of 1792, the National Convention

abolished the monarchy and established a republic

In France, the First Estate was composed of

clergy

Sieyès wrote "What is the Third Estate?" to support the political demands of the

common people

The Third Estate was composed of all of the following except

composed of: shopkeepers, peasants, the unemployed, and skilled craftsmen NOT composed of: the clergy

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen guaranteed

equality under the law for all French men

The French Republic's army in the 1790s

fueled modern nationalism and was raised through total mobilization of the population

The chief reason for Napoleon's fast rise to power was/were his

his series of stunning victories over the enemies of France

In regard to the Catholic Church, the National Assembly

passed on legislation that secularized church offices and clergymen

Sixty percent of the victims of the Reign of Terror were

peasants and laboring class

Napoleon's Continental System tried to defeat the British by

preventing British trade

The American Revolution affected Europeans by

proving that the ideas of the Enlightenment could be realized politically

The King's fortress in Paris, which a mob stormed on July 14, 1789, touching off a wave of riots throughout France, was

the Bastille

In the Concordat of 1801, Napoleon made peace with

the Catholic Church

The most immediate cause of the French Revolution was

the government's failure to resolve its debts and other economic problems

A key carrier of "enlightened" American political and moral ideas back to Europe came in the form of

the hundreds of literate and influential French army and navy officers who had fought on the American side during the Revolutionary War

In July and August 1789, the king's attempt to halt the Revolution was thwarted by

the intervention of armed commoners, especially in urban risings

All of the following were characteristics of Romanticism except

the rejection of the supernatural and the unfamiliar

Napoleon finally defeated the Russian army at

the village of Waterloo

With regard to matters of religion, the National Convention adopted measures

to de-christianize the republic