Chapter 8 and 9 quiz
all of the following are true of enlightened despotism except
it emphasized that the monarchy was on the whole nostalgic and backward-looking
the declaration of the rights of man and citizen was significant because it proclaimed all of the following except
taxes could be raised only by the king
The enlightenment of the 18th century referred to
the belief that europe had emerged from a time of barbarism and darkness
the old regime of pre-1789 europe consisted of three estates
the clergy, the nobility, and everyone else
the organized appointed in 1793 by the french convneton to conduct the government of france was named
the committe of public safety
the organized appointed in 1793 by the french convneton to conduct the governmentof frnce was named
the committe of public safety
the 1790 civil constitution of the clergy provided for all of the following except
the funding of each clergyman's salary by his parish
the oath of the tennis court was
a virtual assumption of national sovereignty by the third estate and its supporters
frederick the great did all of the following except
abolish serfdom throughout his kingdom
during the reign of terror
about 40,000 people, mostly peasants and laborers were executed
Montesquieu's influential doctrine of the separation and balance of powers suggested that good goverment could be obtained by
all of the above
in france the noble owner of a manor retained certain rights from the feudal age, including
all of the above
when in september 1788 the noble-controlled parlement of paris ruled hat the forth coming estates general should meet as three separate orders, the third esate saw this as
an unprovoked class insult by the nobility against it
the committee of public safety did all of the following except
launch a program to suppress christianity in france
all of the following are true about eighteenth century freemasonry except
masons attributed little importance to mysterious rituals and the occult
one of the reasons that the french revolution was so significant was that, unlike the revolutions of Russia and china and twentieth century it
occurred in what was in many ways the most advanced country of its day
Voltaire's famous polemical slogan "Crush the infamous things referred to
religious bigotry and superstition
Adam Smith's wealth of nations argued for
the reduction of barriers that hindered economic growth
the partitions of poland symbolized all of the following except
the triumph of polish nationalism and reform efforts
Rousseau's ideas included all of the following except
the true and only possible expression of the general will is a democracy
the eighteenth century philosophes were a group of writers who
were popularizers and publicists