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49 Cards in this Set
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What was the Old Regime's "fundamental feature"?
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Absolute monarchy
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The First Estate consisted of
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Clergy
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How many Estates existed under the Old Regime?
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Three
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Under the legal system of the old regime, privileges were
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Granted by the King
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The economy of mid-18th century France is best described as
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Feudal
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What was the Old Regime's "fundamental feature"?
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Absolute monarchy
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What was the world's most profitable colony in the 1780s?
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Saint-Dominque
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The First Estate consisted of
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Clergy
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During the mid-18th century, Protestants and Jews in France were
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Only allowed to worship in a few cities
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How many Estates existed under the Old Regime?
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Three
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What event in the late 1780s led to a por harvest and higher bread prices?
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Drought throughout France
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Under the legal system of the old regime, privileges were
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Granted by the King
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Louis XVI called an Estates-General because he wanted to
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Successfully impose more taxes
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The economy of mid-18th century France is best described as
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Feudal
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When did the overtaking of the Bastille take place?
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July 1789
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What was the world's most profitable colony in the 1780s?
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Saint-Dominque
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During the mid-18th century, Protestants and Jews in France were
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Only allowed to worship in a few cities
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What event in the late 1780s led to a por harvest and higher bread prices?
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Drought throughout France
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Louis XVI called an Estates-General because he wanted to
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Successfully impose more taxes
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When did the overtaking of the Bastille take place?
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July 1789
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When was the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen passed?
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August 1789
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The French Revolution's "early years" spanned from 1789 until
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1793
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The National Assembly's membership was mainly made of
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Educated Commoners
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In relation to the passing of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, the American Bill of Rights was ratified
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Two years later
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When did the Women's March on Versailles take place?
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October 1789
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During the revolutionary era, the main source of division among practicing Catholics was the policy in which the clergy were
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Held accountable to the Assembly instead of the Pope
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The Revolution "radicalized" by which year?
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1794
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During the terror, the most notorious symbol of the Revolution became the
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Guillotine
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In what year did the French Revolution end?
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1799
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Whose ascent to power ended the French Revolution?
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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In 18th-century French writings, the word "peasants" meant
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Country dwellers
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What was France's highest legal court in the 1770s?
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Parlement de Paris
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In 1776, members of France's highest legal court refused to abolish many groups' legal privileges because they
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Feared that individuals would become too independent
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The most fundamental social unit of 18th-century France was the
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Family
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What was Jean-Baptiste Greuze's occupation?
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Painter
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What was Charles-Alexandre de Calonne's occupation?
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Noble official
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Why did urban artisan families often hire wetnurses?
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Mothers were needed for their labor.
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The Old Regime held that unmarried men without fixed residences
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Should be treated as potential criminals
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Lettres de cachet were
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Arrest warrants
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Lettres de cachet were most commonly issued by
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Family heads
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The Diamond Necklace Scandal occurred in the
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1780s
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Who was accused of adultery in the Diamond Necklace Scandal?
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Marie Antoinette
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Which philosopher stressed the importance of affection within a family in his novels?
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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What was seen as a normal "escape" for 18th-century aristocratic men?
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Extramarital affairs
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What percentage of the 18th-century French population lived in rural peasant villages?
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75
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What was Jean-Jacques Menetra's main occupation?
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Glazier
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Approximately what percentage of the Old Regime's land did the nobility own?
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25
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The most educated resident of a peasant village was usually the
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Cure
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Which societal group had ceased to perform a function for society by the time of the French Revolution?
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Nobility
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