Unit IX French Revolution

Question 1

The radical Jacobins who voted for a fully democratic constitution also

Answer 1

guillotined prominent revolutionary republican women.

Question 2

Robespierre argued that terror was

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a consequence of the general principle of democracy applied to a pressing need.

Question 3

Perhaps the greatest contributing factor to the French Revolution was

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Louis XVI’s failure to work with the nobility to tap the nation’s great wealth.

Question 4

On the night of August 4, 1789, the national Constituent Assembly attempted to halt peasant rebellion and disorder by

Answer 4

renouncing aristocratic feudal rights, dues, and tithes.

Question 5

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen asserted

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civic equality and popular sovereignty.

Question 6

The 1793 revolt in the Vendée was in support of

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the monarchy.

Question 7

The Chapelier Law did what?

Answer 7

forbade workers’ associations.

Question 8

The French Revolution inspired William Pitt the Younger to

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suspend habeas corpus and make the publication of certain ideas treasonable.

Question 9

The levée en masse

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conscripted males into the army and directed economic production to military purposes.

Question 10

What is the start of the age of Montesquieu?

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tennis court oath

Question 11

What is the end of the age of Montesquieu?

Answer 11

September Massacre

Question 12

Who had the influence over Louis XV?

Answer 12

Pampodore, his mistress

Question 13

What political group was in the center?

Answer 13

girodon

Question 14

Who wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Women.

Answer 14

gouges

Question 15

What is the most accurate summary of the European reaction to the French revolution?

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Ambivalence, followed by fear and hostility

Question 16

The fundamental problem facing the French monarchy in the 1780s was

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Inability to raise sufficient revenue

Question 17

In 1791, France’s National Constituent Assembly created a(n)

Answer 17

Constitutional monarchy

Question 18

Which of the following was NOT part of the economic policy of the National Constituent Assembly?

Answer 18

Repudiating the Old Regime’s royal debt

Question 19

British statesman Edmund Burke felt that the French Revolution

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Ignored the historical realities of political development

Question 20

Under the Directory

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Men had to meet certain qualifications to be part of the legislature

Question 21

Charles Alexandre de Calonne tried to initiate all of the following reforms EXCEPT

Answer 21

Increase the peasants’ required labor services

Question 22

During the “Great Fear”

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Peasants in the countryside claimed land for themselves

Question 23

Under the Constitution of 1791, an active citizen was

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One who paid taxes

Question 24

Which is the best summary of the composition and goals of the Girondists?

Answer 24

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

Question 25

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

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The Convention

Question 26

How are the 1793 and 1795 partitions of Poland related to the French revolution?

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The foreign invasions that led to the partitions were triggered by pleas from Polish nobles who opposed domestic reforms inspired by the French revolution

Question 27

The French debt was worse than the debt of any other European nation after the Seven Years' War.

Answer 27

False

Question 28

Which of the following groups in France were most opposed to the Civil Consitution of the Clergy?

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peasants

Question 29

The achievement of the jacobins did not include:

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the redistribution of all land among the peasants.

Question 30

What did the Civil Consitution of the Clergy lead to?

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the church was made a department of the french state

Question 31

The "Great Fear" that swept through the French Country side in 1789 had its origin in the rumor that:

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brigands were attacking villages and burning crops.

Question 32

What was not a plausible cause of the French Revolution?

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a majority of the French populace desired to abolish the monarchy

Question 33

When the Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath, Louis XVI did what?

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relented after the storming of the Bastille.

Question 34

The consitution of the constitutional monarchy created in the first French Revolution?

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was accepted by the king only with great reluctance.

Question 35

The Constitutional monarchy was during what age?

Answer 35

Age of Montesquieu

Question 36

The age of the Republic was during what age?

Answer 36

The Age of Rousseau

Question 37

Who were petty laborers in Paris who also become the major political group?

Answer 37

San Culottes

Question 38

What is the term for to overthrow those in power?

Answer 38

Coup d' etat

Question 39

The Declaration of Pillnitz was issued in 1791 to what?

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invite European monarchs to restore the French king to the throne