Ch 21 Quiz
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen guaranteed all of the following EXCEPT
economic equality
The legal definition of the composition of the prerevolutionary Third Estate included
everyone who was not a noble or member of the clergy
The ____________ marked the advent of the second revolution.
fall of the monarchy
In the 1780s, more than 50 percent of France's annual budget was expended on
interest payments on the debt
The men elected to represent the Third Estate at the Estates General were primarily
lawyers and government officials
The reign of terror ended when
members of the Convention, afraid Robespierre would turn the Terror on them, had him arrested and executed.
All of the following were considered members of the Third Estate EXCEPT
nuns
According to the text, in the summer of 1789 the National Assembly was driven toward more radical action by
revolutionary actions by French peasants and the common people of Paris.
The tennis court oath was
sworn by renegade delegates from the Estates General, most of them from the Third Estate.
The grievance petitions from all three Estates called for all of the following EXCEPT
An American style republic
The Reign of Terror was directed primarily at
Any and all enemies of the revolution
Napoleon defeated Austria and Russia at the Battle of ___________ in 1805.
Austerlitz
___________, Russia, and Sweden joined with Britain to form the Third Coalition against France.
Austria
The National Assembly that ruled France from 1789 to 1791 passed laws that
Broaden women's rights to seek divorce and inherit property
The __________ system was meant to exclude British goods from the continent.
Continental
____________ captured conservative opinion on the Revolution in his Reflections on the Revolution in France.
Edmund Burke
The American Revolution had its immediate origins in struggles over
Increased taxes
Which of the following occurred FIRST?
Napoleon overthrown the directory
During the Hundred Days
Napoleon returned from exile to rule France briefly.
According to the text, the string of French military victories after the winter of 1793-1794 was largely due to
Patriotism and the superior numbers supplied by the draft
During the Reign of Terror, the dominant person on the Committee of Public Safety was
Robespierre
Napoleon's invasion of __________ began in June 1812.
Russia
The first great revolt against the Grand Empire occurred in ___________ in 1808.
Spain
All of the following were true of the French clergy on the eve of the French Revolution EXCEPT
They were under the complete control of the papacy
The committee of public safety was
an emergency executive committee appointed by the Convention.