French Revolution

What was the vow to continue to meet until  they had produced a French Constitution called?

• Tennis Court Oath
• Racquetball Oath
• Edict of Versailles
• Edict of Nantes

The National Convention did this to promote its belief in reason...

• They pursued a policy of dechristinization. 
• They declared a new holiday celebrating French cuisine.
• They ordered the construction of museums and libraries.
• They called for decrease in production of mimes.

Napoleon's coup d'état overthrow the __________ to establish his consulate.

• Directory
• Dictator 
• Despot
• Monarch

The Committee of Public Safety was given broad powers to...

• defend France from threats; foreign or domestic
  
• protect the Paris Commune from thieves.
• round up all of the criminals released from the Bastille.
• provide anti-bacterial soap to the masses.

What did thousands of armed women descending on the Palace of Versailles force Louis XVI to do?

• Accept the National Assembly's decrees
• Turn the army on the people
• very poor and did not wear pants
  
• women, because they wore skirts

What did the term 'sans-culottes' (without breeches) imply?

• Ordinary patriots without fine clothes
• they were shivering in their booties
  
• very poor and did not wear pants
  
• women, because they wore skirts

Which of France's estates was NOT exempt from the taille?

• the Third Estate (commoners)
• the First Estate (clergy)
  
• the Second Estate (nobility)
  

In Napoleon's final battle, he was defeated by...

• the Duke of Wellington an army composed of French and Swiss
• an army composed of French and Swiss
• the bitter Russian winter.
  
• his love of Josephine, heartbroken.

What were 2 reasons Napoleon's Grand Empire collapsed?

• the survival of Great Britain and the force of nationalism
• Napoleon's greed and laziness within his bureaucracy
• resentment of the clergy and the plotting of the accountants
• his constant need for stilts and small horses

The lawmaking body established by the Constitution of 1791 was called...

• Legislative Assembly
• House of Commons
• House of Lords
• House of Representatives