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Both the Girondins and the Jacobins came from the bourgeoisie. Which of the following statements BEST describes their differences?


A) The Girondins favored a centralized government and strongly supported the sans-culottes.
B) The Jacobins were allied with the sans-culottes but were less well-organized than the Girondins.
C) The Jacobins supported a government in which Paris would serve as the center of power.
D) The Girondins favored tight government controls on the economy.
E) The Jacobins wanted the universal male suffrage for citizens but instituted firm controls over slaves in the French colonies.

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Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? Great Fear

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Which of the following statements concerning Toussaint L'Ouverture is NOT correct?


A) Toussaint was the son of a minor African chieftain who was sold into slavery.
B) Toussaint was educated in French, Latin, and geometry.
C) Toussaint distinguished himself as a military commander, leading an army of slaves in the West Indies.
D) Toussaint became assistant governor of the French sugar colony of San Domingo.
E) Toussaint finished his career as a highly placed administrator in Napoleon's France.

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Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. Napoleon institutionalized social revolution in France and spread it throughout Europe. What exactly was being institutionalized and spread?

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The text asserts that the main reason for Napoleon's downfall was


A) the fact that Europe was not ready for revolutionary reforms.
B) Napoleon's boundless ambition.
C) opposition by Napoleon's opponents on the continent.
D) Great Britain.
E) opposition within France.

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Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. What roles did women and the rural and urban poor play in revolutionary and Napoleonic France?

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Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? sans-culottes

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Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? the Grand Army

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The text has used the phrase "death warrant of the Old Regime" to refer to


A) the fall of the Bastille.
B) the massacre of the Swiss Guards.
C) the Declaration of Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
D) the Brunswick Manifesto.
E) the execution of Louis XVI.

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Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. Analyze the slogan "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, or Death." To what extent was the slogan a good indicator of the realities of the French Revolution?

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Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? cahiers de doléances

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The National Assembly enacted which of the following policies concerning religion?


A) the Civil Constitution of the Clergy
B) laws confining the Jews to ghettos
C) anti-Protestant legislation
D) de-Christianization of state and society
E) all of the above​

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In his approach to France's domestic problems, Napoleon


A) combined the ideas and practices of the Revolution with enlightened despotism.
B) was determined to pursue the ideals of the Revolution to their logical extreme.
C) abandoned even the most lasting changes made by the Revolution in favor of stability.
D) showed an uncompromising hostility to the church.
E) had an Old Regime respect for rank.

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All of the following contributed to the French government's financial crisis in the 1780s EXCEPT


A) debt remaining from earlier wars.
B) the poverty of France.
C) tax exemptions for and tax evasion by the nobility, the clergy, and the wealthy bourgeoisie.
D) an inefficient tax collection system.
E) well-meaning but ineffective leadership.

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Historian Albert Soboul identified the essential cause of the Revolution as


A) the power of a mature bourgeoisie whose progress was being thwarted by an obdurate and decadent aristocracy.
B) anger of the bourgeoisie that they were not permitted to acquire land.
C) distress over the Brunswick Manifesto.
D) the aristocracy's revival of old feudal burdens on the peasantry.
E) the king's inability to take decisive action.

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Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. Some people assume that governments who represent the people are inclined to be more peaceful than monarchies. Consider this thesis by analyzing the early years of the French Revolution.

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The episode known as the Great Fear refers to


A) reaction in the countryside to the Jacobin Terror.
B) the rebellion in the Vendée.
C) the rural reaction to rumors that aristocrats were organizing attacks on peasants.
D) popular reaction to the invasion of France by Prussia and Austria.
E) anxiety in the royal court due to the escalating instability.

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French urban laborers during the Revolutionary period


A) remained passive due to gnawing poverty.
B) were limited to unskilled workers and the unemployed.
C) suffered particularly from the rapidly rising price of bread.
D) experience a drop in wages of 22 percent.
E) all of the above

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The French Revolution revolutionized warfare by


A) creating a mass army of recruits.
B) instilling soldiers with heightened patriotism.
C) rewarding talent with promotion.
D) making the cause not only French but the good of humanity.
E) all of the above

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