AP Euro Test
Why did members of the national convention turn against Robespierre on 9 Thermidor
They believed that Robespierre might soon have them arrested and executed
Why did the French commissioners sent by the newly elected national convention to Saint-Dominque abolish slavery in 1793
They were desperate to rally the rebel slaves to the French cause against the Spanish and English forces on the island
The Declaration of the rights of Man and of the citizen guaranteed
equality before law
The legal definition of the composition of the prerevolutionary third estate included
everyone who was not a noble or member of the clergy
By July 1794 how had the central government in Paris managed to reassert control over the provinces and gain momentum against the First Coalition
It harnessed the explosive forces of a planned economy, revoluntairy terror, and modern nationalism into a total war effect.
Who forced the king and the royal family to abandons Versailles and return to Paris
Several thousand Parisian women
In the 1780's over 50 percent of Frances 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 socail group
according to olympe de gouges
men and women should enjoy special rights and privilgies
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'
why did the antifederalist oppose the new American constitution proposed by the constitutional convention
the feared losing individual freedoms for which they had fought
The attack on the Bastille had which political effect?
The king's plan to reassert his authority were forestalled, permitting the national assembly to continue its work
How did French armies during the French Revolution offer a mixed message to the people they conquered
They presented themselves as liberators to the peasants and middle class but seemed more like foreign invaders as they requistitioned food and supplies and plundered local treasure
Which of these was the goal of the committee of public safety
To use dictatorial powers to respond to threats to france from without and within
when liberals in the late eighteenth century called for equality, they were primarily concerned with equality for...
White propertied men
The national assembly that ruled France from 1789 to 1791 passed laws that
broadened women's rights to seek divorce and inherit property
Which factor caused the life and death political struggle between the Girondists ad the mountains
the Girondist were more moderate policies
Which two fundamental principles of the French revolution were incorporated into the Napoleonic code
the equality of all male citizens before law and the absolute security of wealth and private property
The loyalist faction in the American revolution
was primarily wealth and politically moderate
As the Jacobins gained power what was their reaction to women's political activity
The banned all women political activity which they believed to be disorderly and a distraction from women's proper domestic duties
Which statement was true of Napoleon Bonaparte
He won brilliant victories in Italy in 1796 and 1797
after the arrest and deportation of Toussaint L'Ouverte, how was the war of Haitian independence resolved
Jean Jacques Dessalines L'Ouverture's lieutenant, led the resistance to a crushing victory the French and later declared haitan independence
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
How did the reaction of the kings and nobles in continental Europe to the French revolution change over the revolutions' first two years
initially pleased by the revolutions 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
lawyers and government officials
The string of French military victories after the winter of 1793-94 was largely due to
patriotism and the superior numbers supplied by the draft
in the summer of 1789 the national assembly was driven toward more radical action by
revoluntary actions of French peasants and the common people of Paris
Between 17889 and 1791, the national assembly legislation to undermine the power of
The catholic Church
Why did the Directory continue French wars of conquest begun by early revolutionary governments?
The directory understood that big, victorious armies kept men employed
How did the delegates to the legislative assembly that convened in October 1971 differ from the delegates to the estates general or national assembly
They were younger and less cautious many joined political clubs