Age of Revolutions

Which of the following was a major effect of the American Revolution?

• Britain was required to surrender Canada to the United States.
• The US Constitution became a model for other new democratic nations.
• It proved that an absolute monarchy could be overthrown.
• The Haitian Revolution was a direct result of the American Revolution's success.

France was deep in debt because 

• money had been spent on the American Revolution
• the queen had spent a large amount
• the 1st and 2nd estates did not pay taxes
• all of the above

The idea that reason should guide society rather than tradition helped cause the revolution and came from

• the Declaration of Independence
• the Scientific Revolution
• the Enlightenment
• all of the above

Most of the people of France belonged to the 

• 1st Estate
• 2nd Estate
• 3rd Estate
• 4th Estate

Why was voting in the Estates General unfair

• votes were not secret
• each estate voted by how many members there were
• each estate got the same number of votes
• the King got two votes

The National Assembly set down the ideas of the Revolution in 

• the Declaration of Independence
• the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
• the US Constitution
• The Edict of Nantes

During the Reign of Terror, who was safe from the Guillotine?

• no none
• the nobility
• known revolutionaries
• only Maximillien Robespierre

French King who was executed during the Revolution 

• Napoleon
• Louis XVI
• Dessalines

• Maximillien Robespierre

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and The Citizen proclaimed:

• Equal rights for all men, but no political rights for women
• an end to the monarchy
• equal rights for all citizens and political rights for women
• an  end to  police force

Where was Queen Marie Antoinette from

• Austria 
• Spain
• England