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What is suffrage?

Back

Right to vote

Answer explanation

#93 Suffrage - right to vote

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What is Nationalism?

Back

a strong feeling of pride and devotion to one's country

Answer explanation

#99 Nationalism - a strong feeling of pride and devotion to one's country

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Who were the Jacobins?

Back

radical members of France's Assembly, supported republican principles

Answer explanation

#93 Jacobins - a member of a radical political club during the French Revolution

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How did France change under the National Assembly?

Back

It went from a monarch to a republic

Answer explanation

#132 How did France’s government change under the National Assembly? - France became a republic

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How were opponents of the French revolution dealt with?

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They were dealt with harshly (arrested & executed)

Answer explanation

#133 How did the radical revolutionaries in France try to protect the revolution - dealt harshly with enemies of the revolution

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How did the Directory's actions ultimately lead to the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte?

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The Directory was weak and corrupt

Answer explanation

#134 How did the Directory help lead to the rise of Napoleon? - The Directory was weak and corrupt

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What is a Guillotine?

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A type of weapon that beheaded people by chopping off their head.

Answer explanation

#97 guillotine - device used during the Reign of Terror to execute thousands by beheading

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What stirred the sans-culottes to riot?

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Bread prices went up

Answer explanation

#92 Sans-culottes (Definition and what caused them to riot) - members of the working class who made the French Revolution more radical; called such because men wore long trousers instead of the fancy knee breeches that the upper class wore; rising bread prices

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Which of the following were social reforms enacted during the French revolution? (Read all the choices)
They set up state schools,
Banned slavery,
Set up charity organizations,
All of the Above

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All of the Above

Answer explanation

#130 Significant social reform during the French Revolution - slavery was abolished in French colonies

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What was the reason the radical Legislative Assembly declared war on Austria and then Prussia in 1792?

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They wanted to destroy other monarchies and spread the revolution.

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#131 Reason for the Legislative Assembly declaring war on Austria and Prussia in 1792 - They wanted to spread the revolution and destroy other monarchies