A) A blockade imposed by Napoleon to halt all trade between continental Europe and Britain, thereby weakening the British economy and military.
B) A legislative body in prerevolutionary France made up of representatives of each of the three classes, or estates; it was called into session in 1789 for the first time since 1614.
C) The first French revolutionary legislature, made up primarily of representatives of the third estate and a few from the nobility and clergy, in session from 1789 to 1791.
D) The fear of noble reprisals against peasant uprisings that seized the French countryside and led to further revolt.
E) A political club in revolutionary France whose members were well-educated radical republicans.
F) The period from 1793 to 1794 during which Robespierre's Committee of Public Safety tried and executed thousands suspected of treason and a new revolutionary culture was imposed.
G) From 1792 to 1795, the second phase of the French Revolution, during which the fall of the French monarchy introduced a rapid radicalization of politics.
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 aristocracy and middle class; the word came to refer to the militant radicals of the city.
J) A reaction to the violence of the Reign of Terror in 1794, resulting in the execution of Robespierre and the loosening of economic controls.
K) The empire over which Napoleon and his allies ruled, encompassing virtually all of Europe except Great Britain and Russia.
L) French civil code 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, as well as the restriction of rights accorded to women by previous revolutionary laws.
M) The three legal categories, or orders, of France's inhabitants: the clergy, the nobility, and everyone else.
N) Led by Robespierre, the French National Convention's radical faction, which seized legislative power in 1793.
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A) eliminated women's right to hold property.
B) made divorce more difficult.
C) broadened women's rights to seek divorce and inherit property.
D) declared all men and women to be equal.
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A) A blockade imposed by Napoleon to halt all trade between continental Europe and Britain, thereby weakening the British economy and military.
B) A legislative body in prerevolutionary France made up of representatives of each of the three classes, or estates; it was called into session in 1789 for the first time since 1614.
C) The first French revolutionary legislature, made up primarily of representatives of the third estate and a few from the nobility and clergy, in session from 1789 to 1791.
D) The fear of noble reprisals against peasant uprisings that seized the French countryside and led to further revolt.
E) A political club in revolutionary France whose members were well-educated radical republicans.
F) The period from 1793 to 1794 during which Robespierre's Committee of Public Safety tried and executed thousands suspected of treason and a new revolutionary culture was imposed.
G) From 1792 to 1795, the second phase of the French Revolution, during which the fall of the French monarchy introduced a rapid radicalization of politics.
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 aristocracy and middle class; the word came to refer to the militant radicals of the city.
J) A reaction to the violence of the Reign of Terror in 1794, resulting in the execution of Robespierre and the loosening of economic controls.
K) The empire over which Napoleon and his allies ruled, encompassing virtually all of Europe except Great Britain and Russia.
L) French civil code 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, as well as the restriction of rights accorded to women by previous revolutionary laws.
M) The three legal categories, or orders, of France's inhabitants: the clergy, the nobility, and everyone else.
N) Led by Robespierre, the French National Convention's radical faction, which seized legislative power in 1793.
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A) Initially pleased by the revolution's weakening of France, they came to feel threatened by its increasingly radical message.
B) Initially confused by the claims of the revolutionaries, they came to embrace most of their ideas as representing solid Enlightenment thought.
C) Initially fearful of the revolution's chaos, they came to support the effort to implement needed reforms in France.
D) Initially pleased by the revolution's embrace of Enlightenment ideas, they came to fear the idea of nationalism spread by the revolution.
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A) The Directory had an ideological commitment to liberate all of Europe from aristocratic domination.
B) The Directory feared that without French intervention, Russia would dominate the continent.
C) The Directory understood that big, victorious armies kept men employed.
D) The Directory gave in to demands of the nationalistic populace.
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A) A blockade imposed by Napoleon to halt all trade between continental Europe and Britain, thereby weakening the British economy and military.
B) A legislative body in prerevolutionary France made up of representatives of each of the three classes, or estates; it was called into session in 1789 for the first time since 1614.
C) The first French revolutionary legislature, made up primarily of representatives of the third estate and a few from the nobility and clergy, in session from 1789 to 1791.
D) The fear of noble reprisals against peasant uprisings that seized the French countryside and led to further revolt.
E) A political club in revolutionary France whose members were well-educated radical republicans.
F) The period from 1793 to 1794 during which Robespierre's Committee of Public Safety tried and executed thousands suspected of treason and a new revolutionary culture was imposed.
G) From 1792 to 1795, the second phase of the French Revolution, during which the fall of the French monarchy introduced a rapid radicalization of politics.
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 aristocracy and middle class; the word came to refer to the militant radicals of the city.
J) A reaction to the violence of the Reign of Terror in 1794, resulting in the execution of Robespierre and the loosening of economic controls.
K) The empire over which Napoleon and his allies ruled, encompassing virtually all of Europe except Great Britain and Russia.
L) French civil code 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, as well as the restriction of rights accorded to women by previous revolutionary laws.
M) The three legal categories, or orders, of France's inhabitants: the clergy, the nobility, and everyone else.
N) Led by Robespierre, the French National Convention's radical faction, which seized legislative power in 1793.
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A) A blockade imposed by Napoleon to halt all trade between continental Europe and Britain, thereby weakening the British economy and military.
B) A legislative body in prerevolutionary France made up of representatives of each of the three classes, or estates; it was called into session in 1789 for the first time since 1614.
C) The first French revolutionary legislature, made up primarily of representatives of the third estate and a few from the nobility and clergy, in session from 1789 to 1791.
D) The fear of noble reprisals against peasant uprisings that seized the French countryside and led to further revolt.
E) A political club in revolutionary France whose members were well-educated radical republicans.
F) The period from 1793 to 1794 during which Robespierre's Committee of Public Safety tried and executed thousands suspected of treason and a new revolutionary culture was imposed.
G) From 1792 to 1795, the second phase of the French Revolution, during which the fall of the French monarchy introduced a rapid radicalization of politics.
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 aristocracy and middle class; the word came to refer to the militant radicals of the city.
J) A reaction to the violence of the Reign of Terror in 1794, resulting in the execution of Robespierre and the loosening of economic controls.
K) The empire over which Napoleon and his allies ruled, encompassing virtually all of Europe except Great Britain and Russia.
L) French civil code 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, as well as the restriction of rights accorded to women by previous revolutionary laws.
M) The three legal categories, or orders, of France's inhabitants: the clergy, the nobility, and everyone else.
N) Led by Robespierre, the French National Convention's radical faction, which seized legislative power in 1793.
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A) He appealed both to disillusioned revolutionaries and members of the old nobility and offered them high posts in the expanding centralized state.
B) He imposed harsh martial law that permitted no expression of dissent.
C) He presented himself as a true Son of the Revolution in contrast to the corruption of the Directory.
D) He expanded certain civil rights, such as freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
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A) To build a coalition of provincial leaders in order to suppress rebellions in France
B) To establish a secret police force in order to institute the Reign of Terror
C) To use dictatorial powers to respond to threats to France from without and within
D) To investigate the army in order to weed out disloyal officers and ensure its obedience to the Legislative Assembly
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A) It took no action because many delegates believed slavery would end in the near future as it became less and less profitable.
B) It compromised by stipulating that an enslaved person would count as three-fifths of a person for purposes of taxation and proportional representation in the House of Representatives.
C) It decided that slavery would not be permitted in new states formed after the Constitution's ratification.
D) It decided that a new state would make the decision whether to permit slavery itself before seeking admission to the Union.
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A) The emergence of a new aristocracy based on wealth instead of birth
B) The resurgence of the traditional aristocracy
C) A new and more violent revolution
D) The victory of France's foreign enemies over the people
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A) superior generalship.
B) patriotism and the superior numbers supplied by the draft.
C) superior French technology and tactics.
D) French control of the seas.
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A) They were more experienced politicians with a strong commitment to reforming the nation.
B) They were younger and less cautious; many joined political clubs.
C) They were more sympathetic to the monarchy.
D) They were drawn mostly from the provinces and rural countryside.
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A) The king's plans to reassert his authority were forestalled, permitting the National Assembly to continue its work.
B) The National Assembly dissolved the monarchy and arrested the king for treason against the nation.
C) The peasantry revolted in the Great Fear and attacked noble manors across France.
D) The Parlement dissolved the National Assembly until the people of Paris returned the Bastille to royal control.
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A) Near what would become the capital of Haiti, the city of Port-au-Prince
B) In the area controlled by the forces of André Rigaud from 1794 to 1800
C) In the area of the capital of Saint-Domingue, Le Cap
D) In the area invaded by the British in 1793
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A) The ideal of nationalism and the guarantee of civil rights to all people
B) The rejection of monarchy and the adoption of republicanism
C) The equality of all male citizens before the law and the absolute security of wealth and private property
D) The abolition of slavery and the recognition of freedom of religion
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