AP Euro Chapter 19
Who wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Man (1790) and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), the latter a founding text of the feminist movement?
Mary Wollstonecraft
What two fundamental principles of the French Revolution were incorporated into Napoleonic Code?
The equality of all male citizens before the law and the absolute security of wealth and private property
As the Jacobins gained power, what was their reaction to 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
Who predicted in Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) that reform like that occurring in France would lead only to chaos and tyranny?
Edmund Burke
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 Greta Britain or Holland?
France lacked a central bank and paper currency
What occurred during the Hundred Days in France?
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
Louis XV damaged the sense of his sacred authority by
allowing his common-born mistress to exercise tremendous influence culturally and politically
The legal definition of the composition of the prerevolutionary third estate included
everyone who was not a noble or a member of the clergy
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
The Abbe sieges considered the third estate
the true strength of the French nation
why did great britian seek to raise taxes on its American Colonies in the 1760s
After doubling its national debt in the Seven Years war, Great Britian sought to tax the American colonies to fund the further defense of the colonies
What was Napoleon's Grand Empire?
An enlarged France, a number satellite kingdoms, and the independent but allied states of Austria, Prussia, and Russia
The National Assembly that ruled France from 1789 to 1791 passed laws that
declared all men and women to be equal
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizens guaranteed
equality before the law
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
According to Olympe de Gouges
men and women should be equal in the eyes of the law
The attack on Bastille had what political effect?
The king's plans to reassert his authority were forestalled, permitting the national assembly to continue its work.
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 of the following correctly identifies Napoleon Bonaparte's background?
He won brilliant victories in Italy in 1796 and 1797