Chapter 18

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Which of the following was not one of the reforms implemented by the National Assembly to dissolve the Ancient Regime?

Abolished the clergy

Napoleon's coup d'état overthrew the _______ to established his consulate.

Directory

he two dissenting groups within the National Convention were the

Girondins and the Mountain.

Under the Constitution of 191, the ______ would make the laws

Legislative Assembly

was the brutal head of the Committee of Public Safety.

Maximilien Robespierre

The Directory was eventually toppled by

Napoleon Bonaparte

Who seized political power from the Legislative Assembly?

Paris Commune

What was the episode called in which peasants took up arms against the aristocrats because they believed the aristocrats had organized an army to kill them?

The Great Fear

Which of France's estates was NOT exempt from the taille?

The Third Estate (commoners)

The Duke of Wellington defeated Napoleon at

Waterloo in Belgium

The French National Assembly swore the Tennis Court Oath, which was

a vow to continue to meet until they had produced a French constitution

The Paris Bastille was

an armory and prison

Napoleon's Civil Code treated women

as less than equal to men

What did the historyguide.org author claim made the Revolution radical?

attack on the King's palace

Promotion within Napoleon's new bureaucracy was

based on ability only, not rank or birth

According to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy,

bishops and priests were to be elected by the people and paid by the state

which of the following groups was not part of the Third Estate?

clergy

According to the historyguide.org author, which of the following was not an accomplishment of the French Revolution:

created a new democratic France

The Committee of Public Safety was originally set up to

defend France against foreign armies

The Committee of Public Safety was given broad powers to

defend France from threats

Which of the following was not a problem France faced after the execution of King Louis XVI?

dictatorship

The Reign of Terror set up revolutionary courts to prosecute

enemies of the republic

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen proclaimed

equal rights for all men, but not political rights for women

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen proclaimed all of the following EXCEPT

equal rights for women

The Paris Commune demonstrated, then seized power for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

loyalty to Prussia

The term sans-culottes, meaning "without breeches," implied that the members of this political group were

ordinary patriots without fine clothes

In its attempts to create a new order that reflected its belief in reason, the National Convention:

pursued a policy of dechristianization, going so far as to adopt a new calendar

The Russians defeated Napoleon's superior Grand Army by

retreating hundreds of miles and burning their own villages and countryside

Napoleon's agreement with the Catholic Church did all of the following EXCEPT

return church lands to the pope and clergy

During its rule, the government of the Directory was opposed by

royalists and radicals

The Second Estate did all of the following EXCEPT:

side with the peasants

Napoleon's Continental System was designed to

stop British trade with Europe

The most important of the seven legal codes established by Napoleon was

the Civil Code

The three major parts of Napoleon's Grand Empire were:

the French Empire, the dependent states, and the allied states

The difference between the Girondins and the Mountain was that

the Girondins leaned toward keeping the king alive, while the Mountain wanted the king executed

Napoleon's military force was called

the Grand Army

What were two major reasons that Napoleon's Grand Empire collapsed?

the survival of Great Britain and the force of nationalism

Louis XVI was forced to accept the National Assembly's decrees because

thousands of armed Parisian women descended on the palace and captured him and his family


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