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The French fiscal crisis was caused by


A) the cost of intervention in the American Revolution.
B) heavy government borrowing at a high rate of interest.
C) a narrow tax base.
D) taxes on land weighed heavily on peasants.
E) All these answers are correct.

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Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Marie Antoinette.

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Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: the Terror.

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The Terror refers to a period of violenc...

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Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: sans-culottes.

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Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Louis XVI.

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Louis XVI was the last King of France be...

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Review the feature entitled "A Portrait of the Parisian Sans-Culotte" in this chapter.What distinguishes the supporters of the Revolution, i.e., the sans-culottes, from their enemies according to this pamphlet?

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The American colonies of Britain shared in the revolutionary impulses that swept across late eighteenth-century Europe, yet the political changes that occurred there were very different.How did the American colonies differ from the European states, and what made their revolution unique?

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Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: economic individualism.

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Which of the following is NOT true of the foreign policy of the French Republic?


A) Feudal practices and hereditary privileges were abolished wherever French armies prevailed.
B) Belgium was incorporated into France.
C) Patriots from other lands looked to the French revolutionaries to liberate their own countries.
D) The Revolution's leaders set out consciously to overthrow the "old regime" across Europe.
E) Liberated peoples would pay special taxes and provide supplies.

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Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Brunswick Manifesto.

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It could be argued that the French Revolution should have ended on the night of August 4, 1789.The peasants were pacified by the measures taken by the National Assembly, feudalism had been abolished, and the groundwork was laid for a new regime.Why, then, did the Revolution continue and become violent and more radical?

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Review the Historical Issues feature entitled "On the Origins of the French Revolution" in this chapter.Much of what Lefebvre contends contributed to the French Revolution ("commerce, industry and finance occupied an increasingly important place") could also apply to England.Explain why England failed to experience a revolution similar to France's.

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The program of public safety advocated by the sans-culottes included


A) price controls.
B) forced requisitions of grain supplies.
C) the execution of hoarders.
D) the purge of the Girondins.
E) All these answers are correct.

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Explain the radical tendencies of the sans-culottes.Who do you think dominated and controlled the Mountain-sans-culottes coalition and why?

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In August 1789, the National Assembly took which of the following measures to deal with peasant unrest?


A) The Assembly denounced the peasants.
B) The Assembly organized brigands to protect the property of the nobility.
C) The Assembly decreed the end of feudalism.
D) The Assembly organized brigands to protect the peasants' claims.
E) The Assembly abolished private property.

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Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Burke.

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Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: assignats.

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Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Necker.

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Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: the Mountain.

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The French Revolution became violent because


A) the king brought troops into Paris to suppress the National Assembly.
B) unemployment was high and there were bread shortages.
C) Parisians feared an aristocratic plot against the Third Estate.
D) the king dismissed Necker, who was considered an ally of reform.
E) All these answers are correct.

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