Chapter 18 The French Revolution
Deputies went into the provinces closing churches, persecuting clergy, and occasionally forcing the clergy to marry. This is referred to as...
DeChristianization
Leopold II of Austria and Frederick William Ii of Prussia promised to intervene in France to protect the monarchy if other European nations agreed. This is known as the
Declaration of Pillnitz
the Tennis Court Oath resulted in...
Declaration of the Rights of Man
This English statesman, in his Reflection on the Revolution in France regarded the reconstruction of the French government as "the application of a bind rationalism that ignored the historical realities of political development and the complexities of social relations...
Edmund Burke
All of the following were executed during the French Revolution, EXCEPT
Gracchus Babeuf
Which of the following is NOT TRUE?
Louis XIV was the last king of France
During the French Revolution, the most powerful member of the Committee of Public safety was
Maximilien de Robespierre
Which of the following chronological sequences on the French Revolution correct?
National Assembly, Convention, directory
It stated that the Third Estate could elect twice as many members as the First and Second Estates
Royal Council
Which of the following was most closely associated with the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution of 1789?
The Jacobins
The Abbe Siekes exerted a major influence on the French revolution through his book
What is the Third Estate
All of the following have been advocated as explanations for the coming of the French Revolution EXCEPT:
a majority of the French populace desired to replace the monarchy with a republic
The gabelle was
a tax on salt
Those members of the Estates general who took the famous Tennis Court Oath swore to
draft a constitution for France
The levee en masse
drafted men into the French Army
the Law of 22 Prairial...
permitted the revolutionary tribunal to convict suspects without hearing substantial evidence
During the era of the French Revolution, the Thermidorean Reaction...
terminated the Reign of Terror and led to the execution of Robespierre
The "Great Fear" that swept through the French countryside in 1789 had its origin in
that brigands were attacking villages and burning crops
July 14, 1789 is remembered in French history for...
the fall of the Bastille
The achievements of the Jacobins included all of the following EXCEPT
the franchise given to all adult males
the "Great fear" refers to
the intensification of peasants disturbances when rumors spread that French troops were being sent into rural areas
A vocal element in the French Revolution, the sans-culottes were
the urban working class
A primary factor in the influence of the sans-culottes in the French Revolution of 1789 was
their alliance with the Jacobins