Question 1

What other European countries became involved in the American Revolution, and why?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
The French

Question 2

What limited France's ability to pay its national debts in the 1780s?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
King Louis

Question 3

Use the following to answer questions :
-Jacobin club

Accepted Answer

A) The 1763 diplomatic arrangement that ended the Seven Years' War, according vast French territories in North America and India to Britain and Louisiana to Spain. 
B) The 1776 document in which the American colonies formally stated they were not under the rule of Great Britain and recast traditional English rights as universal human rights. 
C) Opponents of the American Constitution who felt it diminished individual rights and accorded too much power to the federal government at the expense of the states. 
D) Traditional representative body of the three estates of France that met in 1789 in response to imminent state bankruptcy. 
E) French representative body formed in 1789 by the delegates of the third estate and some members of the clergy, the second estate.
F)A political group during the French Revolution to which many of the deputies of the Legislative Assembly belonged.
G)Led by Robespierre, the French National Convention's radical faction, which led the Convention in 1793.
H)A moderate group that fought for control of the French National Convention in 1793.
I)The laboring poor of Paris, so called because the men wore trousers instead of the knee breeches of the wealthy; the term came to refer to the militant radicals of the city.
J)The period from 1793 to 1794, during which Robespierre's Committee of Public Safety tried and executed thousands suspected of political crimes and a new revolutionary culture was imposed.
K)A response in 1794 to the violence of the Reign of Terror, resulting in the execution of Robespierre and the loosening of economic controls.
L)French civil regulations promulgated in 1804 that reasserted the 1789 principles of the equality of all male citizens before the law and the absolute security of wealth and private property.
M)The area over which Napoleon and his allies ruled, encompassing virtually all of Europe except Great Britain.
N)A blockade imposed by Napoleon in which no ship coming from Britain or its colonies was permitted to dock at any port controlled by the French.
O)People of European descent born in the Americas.
P)A term for natives of Spain and Portugal. 
A) The 1763 diplomatic arrangement that ended the Seven Years' War, according vast French territories in North America and India to Britain and Louisiana to Spain. 
B) The 1776 document in which the American colonies formally stated they were not under the rule of Great Britain and recast traditional English rights as universal human rights. 
C) Opponents of the American Constitution who felt it diminished individual rights and accorded too much power to the federal government at the expense of the states. 
D) Traditional representative body of the three estates of France that met in 1789 in response to imminent state bankruptcy. 
E) French representative body formed in 1789 by the delegates of the third estate and some members of the clergy, the second estate.
F)A political group during the French Revolution to which many of the deputies of the Legislative Assembly belonged.
G)Led by Robespierre, the French National Convention's radical faction, which led the Convention in 1793.
H)A moderate group that fought for control of the French National Convention in 1793.
I)The laboring poor of Paris, so called because the men wore trousers instead of the knee breeches of the wealthy; the term came to refer to the militant radicals of the city.
J)The period from 1793 to 1794, during which Robespierre's Committee of Public Safety tried and executed thousands suspected of political crimes and a new revolutionary culture was imposed.
K)A response in 1794 to the violence of the Reign of Terror, resulting in the execution of Robespierre and the loosening of economic controls.
L)French civil regulations promulgated in 1804 that reasserted the 1789 principles of the equality of all male citizens before the law and the absolute security of wealth and private property.
M)The area over which Napoleon and his allies ruled, encompassing virtually all of Europe except Great Britain.
N)A blockade imposed by Napoleon in which no ship coming from Britain or its colonies was permitted to dock at any port controlled by the French.
O)People of European descent born in the Americas.
P)A term for natives of Spain and Portugal.

Question 4

Use the following to answer questions :
-Creoles

Accepted Answer

A) The 1763 diplomatic arrangement that ended the Seven Years' War, according vast French territories in North America and India to Britain and Louisiana to Spain. 
B) The 1776 document in which the American colonies formally stated they were not under the rule of Great Britain and recast traditional English rights as universal human rights. 
C) Opponents of the American Constitution who felt it diminished individual rights and accorded too much power to the federal government at the expense of the states. 
D) Traditional representative body of the three estates of France that met in 1789 in response to imminent state bankruptcy. 
E) French representative body formed in 1789 by the delegates of the third estate and some members of the clergy, the second estate.
F)A political group during the French Revolution to which many of the deputies of the Legislative Assembly belonged.
G)Led by Robespierre, the French National Convention's radical faction, which led the Convention in 1793.
H)A moderate group that fought for control of the French National Convention in 1793.
I)The laboring poor of Paris, so called because the men wore trousers instead of the knee breeches of the wealthy; the term came to refer to the militant radicals of the city.
J)The period from 1793 to 1794, during which Robespierre's Committee of Public Safety tried and executed thousands suspected of political crimes and a new revolutionary culture was imposed.
K)A response in 1794 to the violence of the Reign of Terror, resulting in the execution of Robespierre and the loosening of economic controls.
L)French civil regulations promulgated in 1804 that reasserted the 1789 principles of the equality of all male citizens before the law and the absolute security of wealth and private property.
M)The area over which Napoleon and his allies ruled, encompassing virtually all of Europe except Great Britain.
N)A blockade imposed by Napoleon in which no ship coming from Britain or its colonies was permitted to dock at any port controlled by the French.
O)People of European descent born in the Americas.
P)A term for natives of Spain and Portugal. 
A) The 1763 diplomatic arrangement that ended the Seven Years' War, according vast French territories in North America and India to Britain and Louisiana to Spain. 
B) The 1776 document in which the American colonies formally stated they were not under the rule of Great Britain and recast traditional English rights as universal human rights. 
C) Opponents of the American Constitution who felt it diminished individual rights and accorded too much power to the federal government at the expense of the states. 
D) Traditional representative body of the three estates of France that met in 1789 in response to imminent state bankruptcy. 
E) French representative body formed in 1789 by the delegates of the third estate and some members of the clergy, the second estate.
F)A political group during the French Revolution to which many of the deputies of the Legislative Assembly belonged.
G)Led by Robespierre, the French National Convention's radical faction, which led the Convention in 1793.
H)A moderate group that fought for control of the French National Convention in 1793.
I)The laboring poor of Paris, so called because the men wore trousers instead of the knee breeches of the wealthy; the term came to refer to the militant radicals of the city.
J)The period from 1793 to 1794, during which Robespierre's Committee of Public Safety tried and executed thousands suspected of political crimes and a new revolutionary culture was imposed.
K)A response in 1794 to the violence of the Reign of Terror, resulting in the execution of Robespierre and the loosening of economic controls.
L)French civil regulations promulgated in 1804 that reasserted the 1789 principles of the equality of all male citizens before the law and the absolute security of wealth and private property.
M)The area over which Napoleon and his allies ruled, encompassing virtually all of Europe except Great Britain.
N)A blockade imposed by Napoleon in which no ship coming from Britain or its colonies was permitted to dock at any port controlled by the French.
O)People of European descent born in the Americas.
P)A term for natives of Spain and Portugal.

Question 5

Why did the Antifederalists oppose the American Constitution?

Accepted Answer

A)  They thought it granted too much power to the states. 
B)  They thought it prohibited a standing army. 
C)  They thought it made the federal government too strong. 
D)  They thought it instituted too many taxes. 
A)  They thought it granted too much power to the states. 
B)  They thought it prohibited a standing army. 
C)  They thought it made the federal government too strong. 
D)  They thought it instituted too many taxes.

Question 6

In the Tennis Court Oath, the delegates of the third estate pledged to not disband until they had been recognized as a national assembly and had

Accepted Answer

A)  written a new constitution. 
B)  secured the right to vote for all Frenchmen. 
C)  repealed all taxes. 
D)  forced Louis XVI to abdicate. 
A)  written a new constitution. 
B)  secured the right to vote for all Frenchmen. 
C)  repealed all taxes. 
D)  forced Louis XVI to abdicate.

Question 7

Use the following to answer questions :
-sans-culottes

Accepted Answer

A) The 1763 diplomatic arrangement that ended the Seven Years' War, according vast French territories in North America and India to Britain and Louisiana to Spain. 
B) The 1776 document in which the American colonies formally stated they were not under the rule of Great Britain and recast traditional English rights as universal human rights. 
C) Opponents of the American Constitution who felt it diminished individual rights and accorded too much power to the federal government at the expense of the states. 
D) Traditional representative body of the three estates of France that met in 1789 in response to imminent state bankruptcy. 
E) French representative body formed in 1789 by the delegates of the third estate and some members of the clergy, the second estate.
F)A political group during the French Revolution to which many of the deputies of the Legislative Assembly belonged.
G)Led by Robespierre, the French National Convention's radical faction, which led the Convention in 1793.
H)A moderate group that fought for control of the French National Convention in 1793.
I)The laboring poor of Paris, so called because the men wore trousers instead of the knee breeches of the wealthy; the term came to refer to the militant radicals of the city.
J)The period from 1793 to 1794, during which Robespierre's Committee of Public Safety tried and executed thousands suspected of political crimes and a new revolutionary culture was imposed.
K)A response in 1794 to the violence of the Reign of Terror, resulting in the execution of Robespierre and the loosening of economic controls.
L)French civil regulations promulgated in 1804 that reasserted the 1789 principles of the equality of all male citizens before the law and the absolute security of wealth and private property.
M)The area over which Napoleon and his allies ruled, encompassing virtually all of Europe except Great Britain.
N)A blockade imposed by Napoleon in which no ship coming from Britain or its colonies was permitted to dock at any port controlled by the French.
O)People of European descent born in the Americas.
P)A term for natives of Spain and Portugal. 
A) The 1763 diplomatic arrangement that ended the Seven Years' War, according vast French territories in North America and India to Britain and Louisiana to Spain. 
B) The 1776 document in which the American colonies formally stated they were not under the rule of Great Britain and recast traditional English rights as universal human rights. 
C) Opponents of the American Constitution who felt it diminished individual rights and accorded too much power to the federal government at the expense of the states. 
D) Traditional representative body of the three estates of France that met in 1789 in response to imminent state bankruptcy. 
E) French representative body formed in 1789 by the delegates of the third estate and some members of the clergy, the second estate.
F)A political group during the French Revolution to which many of the deputies of the Legislative Assembly belonged.
G)Led by Robespierre, the French National Convention's radical faction, which led the Convention in 1793.
H)A moderate group that fought for control of the French National Convention in 1793.
I)The laboring poor of Paris, so called because the men wore trousers instead of the knee breeches of the wealthy; the term came to refer to the militant radicals of the city.
J)The period from 1793 to 1794, during which Robespierre's Committee of Public Safety tried and executed thousands suspected of political crimes and a new revolutionary culture was imposed.
K)A response in 1794 to the violence of the Reign of Terror, resulting in the execution of Robespierre and the loosening of economic controls.
L)French civil regulations promulgated in 1804 that reasserted the 1789 principles of the equality of all male citizens before the law and the absolute security of wealth and private property.
M)The area over which Napoleon and his allies ruled, encompassing virtually all of Europe except Great Britain.
N)A blockade imposed by Napoleon in which no ship coming from Britain or its colonies was permitted to dock at any port controlled by the French.
O)People of European descent born in the Americas.
P)A term for natives of Spain and Portugal.

Question 8

The common people of France, both rural and urban, played a significant role in the French Revolution. Discuss their role in the events of the summer and fall of 1789, during the National Convention, the Reign of Terror, and the Thermidorian reaction. What motivated the peasants and the sans-culottes? How successful would the Revolution have been without the actions of the common people?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
The stormi

Question 9

The Thermidorian reaction saw what group reassert its authority in French politics?

Accepted Answer

A)  The nobles 
B)  The middle class 
C)  The monarchists 
D)  The peasantry 
A)  The nobles 
B)  The middle class 
C)  The monarchists 
D)  The peasantry

Question 10

Use the following to answer questions :
-Antifederalists

Accepted Answer

A) The 1763 diplomatic arrangement that ended the Seven Years' War, according vast French territories in North America and India to Britain and Louisiana to Spain. 
B) The 1776 document in which the American colonies formally stated they were not under the rule of Great Britain and recast traditional English rights as universal human rights. 
C) Opponents of the American Constitution who felt it diminished individual rights and accorded too much power to the federal government at the expense of the states. 
D) Traditional representative body of the three estates of France that met in 1789 in response to imminent state bankruptcy. 
E) French representative body formed in 1789 by the delegates of the third estate and some members of the clergy, the second estate.
F)A political group during the French Revolution to which many of the deputies of the Legislative Assembly belonged.
G)Led by Robespierre, the French National Convention's radical faction, which led the Convention in 1793.
H)A moderate group that fought for control of the French National Convention in 1793.
I)The laboring poor of Paris, so called because the men wore trousers instead of the knee breeches of the wealthy; the term came to refer to the militant radicals of the city.
J)The period from 1793 to 1794, during which Robespierre's Committee of Public Safety tried and executed thousands suspected of political crimes and a new revolutionary culture was imposed.
K)A response in 1794 to the violence of the Reign of Terror, resulting in the execution of Robespierre and the loosening of economic controls.
L)French civil regulations promulgated in 1804 that reasserted the 1789 principles of the equality of all male citizens before the law and the absolute security of wealth and private property.
M)The area over which Napoleon and his allies ruled, encompassing virtually all of Europe except Great Britain.
N)A blockade imposed by Napoleon in which no ship coming from Britain or its colonies was permitted to dock at any port controlled by the French.
O)People of European descent born in the Americas.
P)A term for natives of Spain and Portugal. 
A) The 1763 diplomatic arrangement that ended the Seven Years' War, according vast French territories in North America and India to Britain and Louisiana to Spain. 
B) The 1776 document in which the American colonies formally stated they were not under the rule of Great Britain and recast traditional English rights as universal human rights. 
C) Opponents of the American Constitution who felt it diminished individual rights and accorded too much power to the federal government at the expense of the states. 
D) Traditional representative body of the three estates of France that met in 1789 in response to imminent state bankruptcy. 
E) French representative body formed in 1789 by the delegates of the third estate and some members of the clergy, the second estate.
F)A political group during the French Revolution to which many of the deputies of the Legislative Assembly belonged.
G)Led by Robespierre, the French National Convention's radical faction, which led the Convention in 1793.
H)A moderate group that fought for control of the French National Convention in 1793.
I)The laboring poor of Paris, so called because the men wore trousers instead of the knee breeches of the wealthy; the term came to refer to the militant radicals of the city.
J)The period from 1793 to 1794, during which Robespierre's Committee of Public Safety tried and executed thousands suspected of political crimes and a new revolutionary culture was imposed.
K)A response in 1794 to the violence of the Reign of Terror, resulting in the execution of Robespierre and the loosening of economic controls.
L)French civil regulations promulgated in 1804 that reasserted the 1789 principles of the equality of all male citizens before the law and the absolute security of wealth and private property.
M)The area over which Napoleon and his allies ruled, encompassing virtually all of Europe except Great Britain.
N)A blockade imposed by Napoleon in which no ship coming from Britain or its colonies was permitted to dock at any port controlled by the French.
O)People of European descent born in the Americas.
P)A term for natives of Spain and Portugal.

Question 11

What stopped Napoleon's plans to invade Britain?

Accepted Answer

A)  He was wrapped up in a war with Austria and Holland. 
B)  France's signing of the Treaty of Amiens prevented him from invading. 
C)  His navy experienced huge losses at the Battle of Trafalgar. 
D)  He decided to attack Russia instead. 
A)  He was wrapped up in a war with Austria and Holland. 
B)  France's signing of the Treaty of Amiens prevented him from invading. 
C)  His navy experienced huge losses at the Battle of Trafalgar. 
D)  He decided to attack Russia instead.

Question 12

In the Americas, the Seven Years' War was a border dispute between the colonies of what two countries?

Accepted Answer

A)  Britain and France 
B)  Spain and Portugal 
C)  Portugal and the Netherlands 
D)  England and Prussia 
A)  Britain and France 
B)  Spain and Portugal 
C)  Portugal and the Netherlands 
D)  England and Prussia

Question 13

Why did European kings initially welcome the French Revolution?

Accepted Answer

A)  They had hopes for liberal reforms. 
B)  It weakened France, which they saw as a competing power. 
C)  They hoped it would spread to England and weaken it. 
D)  They hoped that it would scare their peasants. 
A)  They had hopes for liberal reforms. 
B)  It weakened France, which they saw as a competing power. 
C)  They hoped it would spread to England and weaken it. 
D)  They hoped that it would scare their peasants.

Question 14

Who wrote Common Sense?

Accepted Answer

A)  John Adams 
B)  Benjamin Franklin 
C)  John Locke 
D)  Thomas Paine 
A)  John Adams 
B)  Benjamin Franklin 
C)  John Locke 
D)  Thomas Paine

Question 15

Why did Britain and Spain become involved in the revolts in Saint-Domingue?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
The Spanis

Question 16

Which of the following contributed to the economic crisis of 1789 in France?

Accepted Answer

A)  A tax on grain 
B)  Peasants refusing to work 
C)  A poor harvest 
D)  A boycott of bakeries 
A)  A tax on grain 
B)  Peasants refusing to work 
C)  A poor harvest 
D)  A boycott of bakeries

Question 17

Why did the Directory continue to support France's military expansion?

Accepted Answer

A)  They feared the army would turn against them if it was recalled. 
B)  They hoped to spread republican revolution throughout Europe. 
C)  The wars helped to alleviate domestic economic problems, including unemployment. 
D)  They feared a coup d'état if they made peace. 
A)  They feared the army would turn against them if it was recalled. 
B)  They hoped to spread republican revolution throughout Europe. 
C)  The wars helped to alleviate domestic economic problems, including unemployment. 
D)  They feared a coup d'état if they made peace.

Question 18

How can France be described politically under Napoleon?

Accepted Answer

A)  It saw the rise of three major political parties. 
B)  It was governed by authoritarianism. 
C)  It allowed freedom of speech and the press. 
D)  It gave women more political power than ever before. 
A)  It saw the rise of three major political parties. 
B)  It was governed by authoritarianism. 
C)  It allowed freedom of speech and the press. 
D)  It gave women more political power than ever before.

Question 19

In 1778, rebels in the American War of Independence made a formal alliance with what European country?

Accepted Answer

A)  France 
B)  Russia 
C)  Spain 
D)  Portugal 
A)  France 
B)  Russia 
C)  Spain 
D)  Portugal

Question 20

What was one of the special privileges enjoyed by European nobility in the eighteenth century?

Accepted Answer

A)  They had a monopoly on road tariffs. 
B)  They were given the right to purchase titles. 
C)  They were given an exemption from taxes. 
D)  They could take control of a guild of their choosing. 
A)  They had a monopoly on road tariffs. 
B)  They were given the right to purchase titles. 
C)  They were given an exemption from taxes. 
D)  They could take control of a guild of their choosing.

Exam 22: Revolutions in the Atlantic World, 1775-1825

What other European countries became involved in the American Revolution, and why?

What limited France's ability to pay its national debts in the 1780s?

Use the following to answer questions : -Jacobin club

Use the following to answer questions : -Creoles

Why did the Antifederalists oppose the American Constitution?

In the Tennis Court Oath, the delegates of the third estate pledged to not disband until they had been recognized as a national assembly and had

Use the following to answer questions : -sans-culottes

The Thermidorian reaction saw what group reassert its authority in French politics?

Use the following to answer questions : -Antifederalists

What stopped Napoleon's plans to invade Britain?

In the Americas, the Seven Years' War was a border dispute between the colonies of what two countries?

Why did European kings initially welcome the French Revolution?

Who wrote Common Sense?

Why did Britain and Spain become involved in the revolts in Saint-Domingue?

Which of the following contributed to the economic crisis of 1789 in France?

Why did the Directory continue to support France's military expansion?

How can France be described politically under Napoleon?

In 1778, rebels in the American War of Independence made a formal alliance with what European country?

What was one of the special privileges enjoyed by European nobility in the eighteenth century?

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