007 - French Revolution - Spielvogel Ch 19

The American Revolution affected Europeans by

• proving that military force was the final diplomatic authority.

• ending colonial expansion around the world.

• proving that the new United States was the most powerful nation.

• proving that the ideas of the Enlightenment could be realized politically.

• proving that the patriotic shedding of vast amounts of blood could bring revolutionary change.

In France, the First Estate was composed of the

• clergy

• nobility

• peasants

• military

• royal family

The most immediate cause of the French Revolution was

• the government's failure to resolve its debts and other economic problems.

• the blocking of attempted reforms by the French Parlements.

• the radical calls of the philosophes for reform.

• Louis XVI's rejection of the cahiers de doléances.

• violent uprisings by the common people who were demanding political and economic equality.

In the fifty years before the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789, the French economy was

• growing due to an expansion of foreign trade and industrial production.

• stagnant due to foreign competition in industry and trade.

• declining rapidly due to overuse of arable land.

• ruined by the collapse of the textile industry.

• entirely based upon agricultural production.

By summoning the Estates-General in 1789, the government

• showed its autocratic strength, since it possessed absolute control over the representatives.

• was following its obligation for regular meetings of the traditional representative assembly.

• was merely looking for a way to solve the immediate financial crisis.

• indicated its intentions to launch a major reform of the French political system.

• revealed that the absolute monarchy was truly subservient to the Third Estate.

The Third Estate was composed of all of the following except

• shopkeepers

• peasants

• the unemployed

• skilled craftsmen

• the lower aristocracy

In considering the revolutionary era, which of the following is not true?

• The French Revolution was less complex, less violent, and far less radical than the American Revolution.

• The American Revolution proved in the long run to be far less important in Europe than the French Revolution.

• The French Revolution provided a model of revolution for Europe.

• The American Revolution proved to many Europeans that the ideas of the Enlightenment were more than utopian ideals.

• The French Revolution has been considered the political movement that inaugurated the modern political world

By the eighteenth century, the French bourgeoisie and nobility were

• growing further apart in social status.

• increasingly less distinguishable from each other.

• rapidly losing social status to the Third Estate.

• openly hostile and frequently involved in street battles.

• almost completely dominated by the clergy of the First Estate.

Sieyès wrote "What is the Third Estate?" to support the political demands of the

• aristocrats

• bankers

• commoners

• clergy

• king

In 1789, the Estates-General was

• Louis XVI's primary advisory body, often consulted by the king on matters of state.

• in unanimous agreement that only radical changes could solve France's problems.

• dominated by the First Estate, composed mostly of urban lawyers.

  unanimously in agreement about the necessity of immediately

• creating a new representative assembly.

• divided over the issue of voting by orders or by head.