Chapter 21 Flashcards
In the 1780s, over 50 percent of France’s annual budget was expended on
D) interest payments on the debt.
All of the following were aspects of the influence of the American Revolution on the French Revolution except
C) increasing the class conflict between nobility and bourgeoisie.
The legal definition of the composition of the prerevolutionary Third Estate included
A) everyone who was not a noble or member of the clergy.
The group that met in 1787 to discuss tax reform was the
B) Assembly of Notables.
Revisionist historians of the French Revolution stress all of the following except the
D) conflict between the nobility and the bourgeoisie.
Abbé Sieyès’s answer to the question “What is the Third Estate?” was that it was
B) the true strength of the French nation.
The grievance petitions from all three estates called for all of the following except
A) an American-style republic.
The Tennis Court Oath was
E) sworn by renegade delegates from the Estates General, most of them from the Third Estate.
The men elected to represent the Third Estate at the Estates General were primarily
C) lawyers and government officials.
During the early years of the French Revolution
B) common Parisian women played key roles in a number of Revolution events.
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen guaranteed all of the following except
B) economic equality.
According to the text, in the summer of 1789 the National Assembly was driven toward more radical action by
D) revolutionary actions by French peasants and the common people of Paris.
The term “Great Fear” refers to the
C) fear of vagabonds and outlaws in the countryside that fanned the flames of rebellion in the summer of 1789.
The accomplishments of the National Assembly included all of the following except the
C) introduction of universal compulsory education.
The National Assembly that ruled France from 1789-1791 passed laws that
D) broadened women’s rights to seek divorce and inherit property.
The Declaration of Pillnitz
A) was issued by Austria and Prussia to intimidate French revolutionaries.
Mary Wollstonecraft argued that
D) men and women would benefit from sexual equality.
During the September Massacres,
E) Parisian crowds slaughtered prison inmates.
The life-and-death political struggle between the Girondins and the Mountain resulted mainly from
D) personal hatred and jealousy.
During the Reign of Terror, the dominant person on the Committee of Public Safety was
E) Maximilien Robespierre.
The Committee of Public Safety was
D) an emergency executive committee appointed by the Convention.
The Reign of Terror was directed primarily at
D) any and all enemies of the Revolution.
The Reign of Terror ended when
C) members of the Convention, afraid Robespierre would turn the Terror on them, had him arrested and executed.
According to the text the string of French military victories after the winter of 1793-1974 was largely due to
B) patriotism and the superior numbers supplied by the draft.
Napoleon seized power in
A) 1799.
According to the text, the Directory continued French wars of conquest begun by early revolutionary governments
C) because big, victorious armies kept men employed and could draw sustenance from the conquered areas.
Which of the following occurred first?
B) Napoleon overthrows the Directory.
Which of the following occurred last?
B) Napoleon invades Russia.
In 1801 Napoleon signed a Concordat with
D) Pope Pius VII.
The Treaty of ___________ (1802) left France in control of Holland and the Austrian Netherlands.
A) Amiens
_____, Russia, and Sweden joined with Britain to form the Third Coalition against France
E) Austria
Napoleon defeated Austria and Russia at the Battle of ___________ in 1805.
D) Austerlitz
The first great revolt against the Grand Empire occurred in ___________ in 1808.
A) Spain
The __________ system was meant to exclude British goods from the continent.
A) continental
Napoleon’s invasion of __________ began in June 1812.
A) Russia
During the Hundred Days,
C) Napoleon returned from exile to rule France briefly.
According to Olympe de Gouges,
B) men and women should be equal in the eyes of the law.
