Chapter 19 and 20 Ap euro test
Which of the following punishments did the Code grant a father the right to ask the court to do?
Arrest and confine his child
How did industry grow in continental Europe?
Belgium led continental Europe in adopting British technology for production.
Who, according to the National Assembly, make up the "nation"?
Citizens
How did Napoleon consolidate his rule?
He appealed both to disillusioned revolutionaries and members of the old nobility and offered them high posts in the expanding centralized state.
How did America's Constitutional Convention of 1787 deal with the discord between pro- and antislavery delegates?
It compromised by stipulating that an enslaved person would count as three-fifths of a person for purposes of taxation and proportional representation in the House of Representatives.
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, revolutionary terror, and modern nationalism into a total war effort.
What did the National Assembly consider the natural rights of man?
Liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression
What of the following assumptions appears to have influenced the writing of the Code?
Most women and all children were incapable of making decisions for themselves.
According to the Napoleonic Code, what do wives owe their husbands?
Obedience
Which two fundamental principles of the French Revolution were incorporated into the Napoleonic Code?
The equality of all male citizens before the law and the absolute security of wealth and private property
Why were the young, generally unmarried women who worked for wages outside the home confined to certain "women's jobs"?
The sexual division of labor replicated a long-standing pattern of gender segregation and inequality.
The tendency to hire family units in the early factories was
usually a response to the wishes of the families.
Why was the Declaration of Independence so important to the American Revolution?
It universalized the traditional rights of English people and made them the rights of all mankind.
According to the Law of 22 Prairial, which of the following would be considered an "enemy of the people"?
A citizen that hoards grain or charges an exorbitant price for bread
How did class-consciousness form during the Industrial Revolution?
As modern industry created conflict between industrialists and laborers, individuals came to believe that classes existed and developed a sense of class feeling.
Who, according to Engels, primarily lived in the cramped, filthy, and dilapidated Manchester's Long Millgate neighborhood?
Workers of English-Irish origins
In nineteenth-century Germany, Fritz Harkort sought
to match English achievements in machine production as quickly as possible, even at great, unprofitable expense.
In the eighteenth century, many liberal thinkers believed that representative institutions could defend the liberty and interests of the people. In terms of political practice, this meant that
voting for representatives would be restricted to men of property
What penalty did the Law impose for all counter-revolutionary activities?
Death
How did labor in British families change in the eighteenth century?
Family members shifted labor away from unpaid work for household consumption and toward work for wages.
What kind of punishment did the rules stipulate for most offenses?
Fines
Why were cottage workers, accustomed to the putting-out system, reluctant to work in the new factories even when they received good wages?
In a factory, workers had to keep up with the machine and follow its relentless tempo.
How did the reaction of kings and nobles in continental Europe to the French Revolution change over the Revolution's first two years?
Initially pleased by the Revolution's weakening of France, they came to feel threatened by its increasingly radical message.
How did the origins of industrialists change as the Industrial Revolution progressed?
It became harder to form new firms, and instead, industrialists were increasingly likely to have inherited their wealth.
After the arrest and deportation of Toussaint L'Ouverture, how was the war of Haitian independence resolved?
Jean-Jacques Dessalines, L'Ouverture's lieutenant, led the resistance to a crushing victory over the French and later declared Haitian independence.
What or who, according to the representatives, determined the limits of a citizen's rights?
Laws
The British Mines Act of 1842 and the various Factory Acts between 1802 and 1833 provide evidence that in the early and mid-nineteenth century
Parliament was sympathetic to the new industrial working class.
Which of the following did employees provide for each other?
Sick Pay
Why did the Directory continue French wars of conquest begun by early revolutionary governments?
The Directory understood that big, victorious armies kept men employed.
Which of the following did the National Assembly cite as a justification for the issuance of the Declaration?
The French government's disregard of and scorn for the rights of man.
How did the Law of 22 Prairial revise the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
The Law of 22 Prairial significantly eroded the legal rights and protections established in the Declaration of the Rights of Man.
How did iron become the basic building block of the British economy in the nineteenth century?
The spread of coke smelting and the development of steam-powered rolling mills increased production enormously and reduced the price of iron products.
Why did the French commissioners sent by the newly elected National Convention to Saint-Domingue 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 1844 rules for a Berlin factory
encouraged workers to inform on their fellow workers who broke the rules.
In the eighteenth century, railroad construction on the European continent
featured varying degrees of government involvement.
In Engels' view, all of the negative aspects of working-class Manchester were a direct result of
industrialization.
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.
Owing to the Industrial Revolution, living and working conditions for the poor
stagnated or even deteriorated until around 1850
