Ch. 20 Western Civ

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To provide for greater control over local interests and thereby avoid anarchy, the National Assembly divided France into

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de'partments

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Cahiers de doleances were

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grievances of the people of France that were recorded in notebooks.

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On what day did Paris citizens storm the Bastille prison?

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14 July, 1789

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Napoleon's Continental System represented

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economic warfare against Britain to ruin a nation he could not defeat militarily.

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Napoleon was defeated for the final time at Waterloo on

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15 June 1815.

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The passage of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy in July 1790 had all of the following negative effects on the Revolution EXCEPT which one?

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French Catholics were forced to embrace the Huguenot faith because of the act's portrayal of priests as the Devil's servants.

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In April 1792 France first declared war on

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Austria

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Napoleon's greatest military mistake was his decision to

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invade Russia in 1812.

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Napoleon had himself elected ________ in 1802, becoming more powerful than any previous Bourbon king of France.

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First Consul for life

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The author of the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizen was

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Olympe de Gouges

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The National Assembly wanted to control eruptions of rural violence because

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they knew that they had to maintain peace and protect property to stay in power and be credible.

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Which of the following was NOT a problem facing the revolutionary government in the summer of 1791?

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religious warfare between Catholics and Huguenots

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What estate contained "commoners" in 18th century France?

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Third Estate

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The government that emerged in France after Robespierre's fall from power was the

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Directory.

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What French monarch was referred to as the "Liberator" of America?

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Louis XVI

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Prior to 1788, the French Estates-General last met in

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1614.

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Slave unrest in the French colony of ___________ that coincided with the political conflicts of the Revolution led the revolutionaries of Paris to support black independence.

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Saint Domingue

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What French aristocrat joined the American revolutionary effort in 1777?

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Lafayette

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Although Napoleon failed in lasting imperial conquests, he likely helped spread

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revolutionary ideals concerning the will of people and political power.

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Following the costly Seven Years' War, aristocratic magistrates attempted to stall increased taxation by

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charging the king with attacking liberty itself in his attempt to tax those who were exempt by virtue of their privileged status.

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Maximilien Robespierre's political philosophy was influenced by The Social Contract of

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Jean Jacques Rousseau.

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Peasants paid all of the following obligations before the French Revolution EXCEPT

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taxes on cake and bread

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In pre-revolutionary France, the magistrates represented the

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parlements.

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The event that brought France to the brink of bankruptcy was France's support of

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the American colonists in their War of American Independence.

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The rallying cry of the second revolution that began in 1792 was

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equality and nationalism.

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Assignats were

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bonds backed by confiscated Church property that soon assumed the status of banknotes.

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According to the text the first stage of the French Revolution was based on

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freedom.

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The sans-cullotes consisted of

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working men and women of Paris.

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How did Napoleon break the tradition of coronation by the Popes established in the time of Charlemagne?

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He took the crown from Pope Pius VII and placed it on his own head.