French Revolution
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