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World History Chapter 20 Test Flashcards

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True or False? The radical faction controlled the Legislative Assembly.

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False

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True or False? The Third Estate included the bourgeoisie, the artisans and workers, and the peasants.

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True

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True or False? The Reign of Terror decreased foreign opposition to the French Revolution.

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False

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True or False? ONly male citizens were executed during the Reign of Terror.

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False

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True or False? About 17,000 people were executed over a ten-month period during France’s Reign of Terror.

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True

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True or False? The Napoleonic Wars were fought against counterrevolutionaries in western France.

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False

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True or False? Napoleon Bonaparte was a brilliant military leader who could be described as ruthlessly ambitious.

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True

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True or False? Napoleon built a strong, centralized government in France.

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True

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True or False? As First Consul in the Consulate, Napoleon was a dictator.

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True

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True or False? During a period known as the Hundred Days, Napoleon’s troops met disaster during the winter in Russia.

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False

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True or False? The Congress of Vienna restored some of the monarchies that Napoleon had eliminated.

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True

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True or False? The army Napoleon led into Russia was troubled from the start by disloyalty, problems with supplies, and misery caused by the summer heat.

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True

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What event caused the Great Fear?

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The fall of the Bastille

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Why did the Legislative Assembly declare war against Austria?

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Austrians had issued a declaration warning against harming the French monarchs.

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Why did King Louis XIV call a meeting of the Estates General to be held in the spring of 1789?

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To get approval for new taxes on the Third Estate.

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Which of the following revolutionary leaders came to oppose the violent excesses of the Revolution?

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George-Jaques Danton

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Why was the Revolutionary Tribunal created?

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To eliminate people who threatened the Revolution from within.

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Europeans outside of France reacted to the execution of Louis XVI with?

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Horror

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Which of the following legislative bodies ended the monarchy and proclaimed France a republic?

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The National Convention

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Which of the following is the correct sequence of legislative bodies that governed France during the Revolution from first to last?

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National Assembly, Legislative Assembly, National Convention, Directory

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21
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Many peasants came to oppose the Revolution because?

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They opposed the Revolution’s anticlerical moves and the draft.

22
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The French people welcomed Napoleon because?

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He promised order after the chaos of the Revolution.

23
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Why did Napoleon see the Louisiana Territory to the United States?

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His failure to take back Saint Domingue led him to abandon his dream of an empire in the Americas.

24
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Portugal refused to comply with the Continental System because?

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It depended on its trade with Great Britain.

25
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Throughout the Napoleonic Wars, France’s greatest enemy was?

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Great Britain

26
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Which of the following leaders most helped to defuse the liberal ideals of the French Revolution?

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Prince Klemens von Metternich

27
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Which of the following did Great Britain receive as a result of their fight against France?

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Overseas colonies

28
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The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizens considered which of the following rights one of the most precious?

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Freedom of Speech

29
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Which of the following provisions of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizens would have particularly angered the Second Estate?

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12

30
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Which of the following was one cause of the French Revolution?

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New taxes on the Second Estate

31
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Which of the following was one of the first acts of the National Convention?

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The declaration that France was a republic

32
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Which of the political factors was the most radical?

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The Montagnards

33
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Which states were opposed to Napoleon in 1812?

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Portugal, united Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Kingdom of Sardinia, Kingdom of Sicily, Montengro, Russian Empire and Sweden.

34
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The rights outlined in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen did not extend to?

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Women

35
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Destroyed most of the French fleet in the Battle of the Nile?

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Horatio Nelson

36
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The vote that made France an empire in 1804?

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Plebiscite

37
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Roman Catholic clergy?

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First Estate

38
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A weak governing board that ended when Napoleon seized power?

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Directory

39
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Recognized the influence of the Roman Catholic Church in France?

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Concordat

40
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Nobility?

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Second Estate

41
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Site of a crushing defeat for Napoleon?

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Waterloo

42
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Sense of patriotism and unity as people?

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Nationalism

43
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Support came from the lower middle class and the poor.

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Jacobin Club

44
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Guaranteed freedom of speech, the press, and religion?

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the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

45
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A brief period when Napoleon regained control of France?

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Hundred Days

46
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A symbolic event of the Revolution?

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The storming of Bastille

47
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A force transfer of power?

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coup d’etat

48
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Used for executions?

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guillotine

49
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His views dominated the Congress of Vienna.

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Prince Klemens von Metternich

50
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The top of France’s Old Order?

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King Louis XIV

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