Unit IX French Revolution Flashcards
The radical Jacobins who voted for a fully democratic constitution also
guillotined prominent revolutionary republican women.
Robespierre argued that terror was
a consequence of the general principle of democracy applied to a pressing need.
Perhaps the greatest contributing factor to the French Revolution was
Louis XVI’s failure to work with the nobility to tap the nation’s great wealth.
On the night of August 4, 1789, the national Constituent Assembly attempted to halt peasant rebellion and disorder by
renouncing aristocratic feudal rights, dues, and tithes.
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen asserted
civic equality and popular sovereignty.
The 1793 revolt in the Vendée was in support of
the monarchy.
The Chapelier Law did what?
forbade workers’ associations.
The French Revolution inspired William Pitt the Younger to
suspend habeas corpus and make the publication of certain ideas treasonable.
The levée en masse
conscripted males into the army and directed economic production to military purposes.
What is the start of the age of Montesquieu?
tennis court oath
What is the end of the age of Montesquieu?
September Massacre
Who had the influence over Louis XV?
Pampodore, his mistress
What political group was in the center?
girodon
Who wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Women.
gouges
What is the most accurate summary of the European reaction to the French revolution?
Ambivalence, followed by fear and hostility
The fundamental problem facing the French monarchy in the 1780s was
Inability to raise sufficient revenue
In 1791, France’s National Constituent Assembly created a(n)
Constitutional monarchy
Which of the following was NOT part of the economic policy of the National Constituent Assembly?
Repudiating the Old Regime’s royal debt
British statesman Edmund Burke felt that the French Revolution
Ignored the historical realities of political development
Under the Directory
Men had to meet certain qualifications to be part of the legislature
Charles Alexandre de Calonne tried to initiate all of the following reforms EXCEPT
Increase the peasants’ required labor services
During the “Great Fear”
Peasants in the countryside claimed land for themselves
Under the Constitution of 1791, an active citizen was
One who paid taxes
Which is the best summary of the composition and goals of the Girondists?
A subset of the radically republican Jacobin club, the Girondists favored war with Austria in 1792 on the grounds that external conflict would strengthen the revolution domestically
The assembly that first met in September 1792 to write a democratic constitution, and wound up ordering the execution of Louis XVI and leading France to war with most of Europe, was called
The Convention
How are the 1793 and 1795 partitions of Poland related to the French revolution?
The foreign invasions that led to the partitions were triggered by pleas from Polish nobles who opposed domestic reforms inspired by the French revolution
The French debt was worse than the debt of any other European nation after the Seven Years’ War.
False
Which of the following groups in France were most opposed to the Civil Consitution of the Clergy?
peasants
The achievement of the jacobins did not include:
the redistribution of all land among the peasants.
What did the Civil Consitution of the Clergy lead to?
the church was made a department of the french state
The “Great Fear” that swept through the French Country side in 1789 had its origin in the rumor that:
brigands were attacking villages and burning crops.
What was not a plausible cause of the French Revolution?
a majority of the French populace desired to abolish the monarchy
When the Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath, Louis XVI did what?
relented after the storming of the Bastille.
The consitution of the constitutional monarchy created in the first French Revolution?
was accepted by the king only with great reluctance.
The Constitutional monarchy was during what age?
Age of Montesquieu
The age of the Republic was during what age?
The Age of Rousseau
Who were petty laborers in Paris who also become the major political group?
San Culottes
What is the term for to overthrow those in power?
Coup d’ etat
The Declaration of Pillnitz was issued in 1791 to what?
invite European monarchs to restore the French king to the throne
