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
