Deck 19: a Revolution in Politics: the Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon

Question 1

Compare and contrast the French Revolution with previous revolutions in England and America.

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Question 2

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Yorktown

Answer 2

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Question 3

Did Napoleon embody the Enlightenment?

Answer 3

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Question 4

What caused the French Revolution?

Question 5

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the Constitution of 1789

Question 6

Napoleon said that perhaps the world would have been better off if neither he nor Rousseau had ever lived. What did he mean?

Question 7

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natural rights

Question 8

How revolutionary was the American War of Independence both domestically and in terms of its international heritage?

Question 9

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July 14, 1789

Question 10

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July 4, 1776

Question 11

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the marquis de Lafayette

Question 12

Which revolution American or French has had the greatest influence during the last two centuries and why?

Question 13

In what ways did Napoleon's policies repudiate the accomplishments of the French Revolution? In what ways did his policies strengthen the accomplishments of the French Revolution?

Question 14

"Napoleon both fulfilled the ideals of the French Revolution but he also destroyed them." Discuss.

Question 15

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the Bastille

Question 16

How did the French Revolution affect the roles of women in society? Did the Revolution and its consequences ultimately benefit or hurt female citizens? Did men win more out of this event than women? Why?

Question 17

How was France changed by the revolutionary events of 1789-1792? Who benefited the most from these changes?

Question 18

Napoleon has been considered the greatest general of all time. Using examples from the text, defend or refute this statement.

Question 19

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Bill of Rights

Question 20

What explains the Reign of Terror?

Question 21

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French Parlements

Question 22

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Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

Question 23

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Civil Constitution of the Clergy

Question 24

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Abbé Sieyès

Question 25

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Declaration of Pillnitz

Question 26

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Paris Commune

Question 27

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National Convention

Question 28

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the bourgeoisie

Question 29

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the Tennis Court Oath

Question 30

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the National Assembly

Question 31

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sans-culottes

Question 32

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First and Second Estates

Question 33

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Third Estate

Question 34

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vote by order or by head?

Question 35

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the Jacobins

Question 36

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Georges Danton

Question 37

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Olympe de Gouges

Question 38

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the taille

Question 39

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"We are bringing back the baker...."

Question 40

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escape to Varennes

Question 41

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Gracchus Babeuf

Question 42

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Germaine de Stael

Question 43

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Directory

Question 44

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Committee of Public Safety

Question 45

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Girondins and the Mountain

Question 46

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First Consul and Emperor

Question 47

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Thermidorean Reaction

Question 48

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Italian and Egyptian campaigns

Question 49

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Temple of Reason

Question 50

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the Concordat

Question 51

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Toussaint L'Ouverture

Question 52

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Napoleon Bonaparte

Question 53

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the Civil Code

Question 54

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Reign of Terror

Question 55

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fraternite

Question 56

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Law of General Maximum

Question 57

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Austerlitz and Trafalgar

Question 58

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the guillotine

Question 59

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the Vendee

Question 60

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Maximilien Robespierre

Question 61

Just prior to the Revolution in France, the number of the poor in France

A) actually declined.
B) went up significantly.
C) increased very slowly.
D) remained fairly constant.
E) a and d

Question 62

The most immediate cause of the French Revolution was

A) the government's failure to resolve its debts and other economic problems.
B) the blocking of attempted reforms by the French Parlements.
C) the radical calls of the philosophes for reform.
D) Louis XVI's rejection of the cahiers de doléances.
E) violent uprisings by the common people who were demanding political and economic equality.

Question 63

By the eighteenth century, the French bourgeoisie and nobility were

A) growing further apart in social status.
B) increasingly less distinguishable from each other.
C) rapidly losing social status to the third estate.
D) openly hostile and frequently involved in street battles.
E) almost completely dominated by the clergy of the First Estate.

Question 64

The Constitution of the United States of 1789

A) was a revision of the Articles of Confederation.
B) was seen by European liberals as a utopian document that would never last.
C) created a republic in which the branches of government provided checks on one another.
D) had no real impact on the French Revolution.
E) failed, and was soon replaced by the Articles of Confederation.

Question 65

In 1789, the Estates-General was

A) Louis XVI's parliamentary body often consulted by the king.
B) in unanimous agreement that only radical changes could solve France's problems.
C) dominated by the first estate composed mostly of urban lawyers.
D) unanimously in agreement about the necessity of immediately creation a "National Assembly."
E) divided over the issue of voting by "orders" or by "head."

Question 66

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the Grand Army

Question 67

By convening the Estates General in 1789,

A) the government showed its autocratic strength.
B) the government indicated the financial well-being of France.
C) the government all but conceded to the sovereignty of the people in their own taxation.
D) the government conceded all powers to the people.
E) the government did what it normally did every few years, thereby indicating little.

Question 68

The colonists won their war for independence due to

A) generous military and financial aid from various European states, especially France.
B) the collapse of the English colonial system.
C) apathy of the English military.
D) flaws in the English mercantile system.
E) b and c

Question 69

On July 4, 1776, the delegates of the Second Continental Congress approved

A) the Declaration of the Rights of the Man and the Citizen.
B) the Constitution.
C) the Declaration of Independence.
D) the Olive Branch Petition.
E) George Washington as commander of the Continental Army.

Question 70

In France, the First Estate was composed of

A) the nobility.
B) the clergy.
C) the peasants.
D) the military.
E) the nobility

Question 71

The French economy of the eighteenth century was

A) growing due to an expansion of foreign trade and industrial production.
B) stagnant due to foreign competition in industry and trade.
C) declining rapidly due to overuse of arable land.
D) based largely on the silk industry.
E) was entirely based upon agricultural production.

Question 72

Sieyès wrote "What is the Third Estate?" to support the political demands of the

A) aristocrats.
B) foreign investors.
C) common people.
D) clergy.
E) king.

Question 73

As one measure of the French crown's terrible financial predicament, by 1788 the interest payments on the state debt alone amounted to

A) one-fifth of total government spending.
B) one-quarter of total government spending.
C) one-third of total government spending.
D) one-half of all government spending.
E) two-thirds of all government spending.

Question 74

A key conduit of "enlightened" American political and moral ideas back to Europe was formed by

A) returning British prisoners of war.
B) the hundreds of literate and influential French army and navy officers who had fought on the American side during the Revolutionary War.
C) European nobles returning from expeditions to the new American frontier.
D) missionary priests returning from evangelical campaigns deep in the U.S. back country.
E) official proclamations sent to the governments of Europe by George Washington.

Question 75

Compared to the American Revolution, the French Revolution was

A) less violent.
B) less radical.
C) more influential in Europe as a model of rebellion.
D) quickly over.
E) was entirely a movement of the masses, led by faceless individuals.

Question 76

The defeat of General Cornwallis and his army at Yorktown in 1781, leading to British abandonment of the Revolutionary War, was achieved by

A) American colonial army and naval forces alone.
B) a combined American and French army.
C) a combined force of American, French, Spanish, and Dutch forces.
D) the Virginia Minutemen.
E) a combined American and French army supported by a heavily armed French fleet.

Question 77

When the government called for the Estates General to meet,

A) it abolished the Third Estate.
B) it halved the number of representatives from the Third Estate.
C) it doubled the number of representatives from the Second Estate.
D) it doubled the number of representatives from the Third Estate.
E) it changed nothing.

Question 78

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Elba and Saint Helena

Question 79

The Third Estate was composed of all of the following except

A) shopkeepers.
B) peasants.
C) the unemployed.
D) skilled craftsmen.
E) the clergy.

Question 80

The American Revolution affected Europeans by

A) proving that military force was the final diplomatic authority.
B) ending colonial expansion around the world.
C) proving that the new United States was the most powerful nation.
D) proving that the ideas of the Enlightenment could be realized politically.
E) proving that the patriotic shedding of vast amounts of blood could bring revolutionary change.