Test 1 Multiple Choice

Question 1

French Revolution

Main idea

Answer 1

Far-reaching social and political upheaval in France.

Culmination of frustrations (rule by absolute monarch)

Questioning social order
(Woman’s role, slaves, Catholic Church)

Question 2

Four stages of the French Revolution

Answer 2

1. National Assembly
2. Republic and Terror
   (Leadership executing anyone they suspected might be against the revolution)
3. Thermidor and directory (group of 5 men who held executive power)
4. Napoleon

Question 3

Class conflict theory

Answer 3

Competing between the classes

All worked together to overthrow the king

Blurred lines between classes

Question 4

Three estates

Answer 4

1. Clergy
2. Nobility
3. Everyone else (middle class, peasants, etc.)

Question 5

Physiocrats

Answer 5

Believed the wealth of nations was derived solely from the value of agriculture

Agriculture=wealth

Question 6

Estates general

Answer 6

Representative body of the three estates

Supposed to have power to change laws but usually ignored by the king

Question 7

Tennis court oath

Answer 7

Third estate meets here and says they will create a New France

Question 8

October days of 1789

Answer 8

Poor harvest->Parisian woman demand bread at city hall->denied->marched 12 miles to Versailles to confront royal family

Question 9

Passive vs. Active Citizens

Answer 9

Passive=everyone

Active Citizens=vote, hold office (landowning white male)

Question 10

French constitution of 1791

Answer 10

First written constitution in France
(By the National Assembly)

Enlightenment goals

Limited monarchy

Rights for male citizens

Ended church interference in government

Lasted less than a year

Question 11

Edmund Burke

Answer 11

Counterrevolutionary

Rights are not natural, but bound to tradition

Question 12

National convention

Answer 12

New government in France

Organized as a republic (no monarchy)

Question 13

Trial and execution of king Louis XVI

Answer 13

He was found to be co spiting with foreign powers

Tried and executed by national convention

Question 14

Committee on public safety

Answer 14

12 people

Go after potential enemies of the revolution

Question 15

Maximilian Robespierre

Answer 15

Director/father of the reign of terror

President of the national convention

Question 16

The vendee

Answer 16

Peasant protests against priests who had persecuted them long enough

Question 17

Grand Armee

Answer 17

Army commanded by Napoleon in the napoleonic wars

Question 18

Battle of Trafalgar / Horatio Nelson

Answer 18

Naval battle fought by the British against French/Spanish

Horatio Nelson led the British to victory

Question 19

Peninsular War

Answer 19

France against Spain/Portugal

Napoleon loses

Question 20

Defeat of Napoleon/Exile to Elba

Answer 20

Battle of the nations (napoleons enemies united against him)

He lost the battle and was forced to step down

He was then exiled to Elba

Question 21

St. Helena

Answer 21

After Napoleon came back from Elba (for 100 days)

He was exiled to St. Helena where he died

Question 22

Saint Domingue(Haiti)/slave rebellion

Answer 22

Free men want representation in the National Assembly

National Assembly says no-ANGER

Slaves rebel

Ended slavery and French control in Haiti

Question 23

Protestant ethic

Answer 23

You make yourself wealthy “help yourself”

Objectifies the poor

Question 24

Middle class “respectability”

Answer 24

Merchant class

“Respectable”

Question 25

Cult of domesticity

Answer 25

Middle class women should stay at home/take care of kids

Question 26

Working class life (General characteristics)

Answer 26

Unsanitary living conditions Women in the workforce Factories and sweatshops Domestic service

Question 27

Class consciousness

Answer 27

Concept of time and routine Industrial slavery “machines will hurt you” Lack of job security Separation of classes

Question 28

Consequences of industrialization

Answer 28

Free trade New countries New political theory (class based society)

Question 29

Restoration of monarchies

Answer 29

Congress of Vienna restores monarchies

Question 30

Balance of power

Answer 30

No one nation in Europe should be super powerful

Question 31

Concert of Europe

Answer 31

Countries support each other if revolutions broke out

Question 32

Latin American uprisings (who led them)

Answer 32

Simon bolivar- South American revolutionary figure Successful revolution led to the creation of new countries

Question 33

Czar Nicholas I

Answer 33

New czar of Russia New code of law Modernization & organization

Question 34

1830 French “revolution”

Answer 34

Charles X imposed strict rules (claiming absolute monarchy)and the people revolted Louis-Philippe is put on throne

Question 35

King Charles X of France/July Ordinances

Answer 35

Set of rules intended to prevent revolution (like limiting the press) Caused revolution

Question 36

July Monarchy

Answer 36

Louis-Philippe’s reign

Question 37

Peterloo Massacre/Six Acts

Answer 37

Workers rising up->British militia fire at them Government implements reforms so revolutions don’t happen

Question 38

Rotten (pocket) Burroughs

Answer 38

Representative district with little to no people How the Tories (conservatives) kept power

Question 39

Tories vs Whigs

Answer 39

Tories=conservative | Whigs=liberal

Question 40

Corn laws/anti-corn law league

Answer 40

Tariffs and restrictions on imported food and grain enforced in Great Britain Anti-corn law league successful political movement against corn laws FREE TRADE

Question 41

Chartist movement

Answer 41

Every man in Britain could vote

Question 42

End of trans Atlantic slave trade

Answer 42

Britain!!!!!!

Question 43

Conservatism

Answer 43

Backlash on liberalism Favored tradition, monarchy, noble privilege, the church, natural social hierarchy

Question 44

Liberalism

Answer 44

``` Everyone should be equal Should select leader Right to revolt Free trade Natural rights ```

Question 45

John Locke

Answer 45

Natural rights | Life, liberty, and property

Question 46

Jeremy Bentham

Answer 46

Everyone should do what makes them happy This will give success in society (if you’re good at it)

Question 47

Utilitarianism

Answer 47

Action is right if it tends to promote happiness

Question 48

Left wing radical republicans

Answer 48

Radical liberals More people voting, more allowed citizenship

Question 49

Socialism

Answer 49

More cooperative Everyone shares economic power People are equal socially Redistribution of power Organization of ideal communities “hippies”

Question 50

Karl Marx/Marxism

Answer 50

Father of Communism Materialism