APEH French Revolution

France's financial crisis before the revolution was caused by...

• Louis XIV's expensive court system designed to weaken the nobility

• military costs from Louis XIV's and Louis XV's wars

• war debts from wars hundreds of years ago that accumulated over time

• the outrageous costs of manufacturing guillotines

When the people of Paris heard that the military was going to stop the revolution their response was to 

• leave the city
• storm the Bastille
• force the King to come to Paris
• none of the above

In 1789, the hungry women of Paris marched to Versailles and 

• forced the King to return to Paris
• demanded that the King abdicate
• demanded that the King leave France
• all of the above

The National Assembly set down the ideas of the Revolution in 

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

The radicals who took over the revolution were led by 

• Louis XVI
• Robespierre
• Rousseau
• Marquis de Lafayette

The Radicals eliminated anyone accused of being against the Revolution during 

• the Terror
• the Great Fear
• Thermidorian Reaction
• Thermidorian Reaction

Robespierre was sent to the guillotine because

• he was accused of a crime he did not committ
• other radicals thought he might execute them next
• the King's supporters captured him
• none of the above

The end of the Revolution came with 

• France's surrender to England
• Napoleon's coup
• the Louisiana Purchase
• the Invasion of Russia

In 1802, Napoleon declared himself as the ___ "Consul for Life" & in 1804 declared himself ___ of France.

• sole; emperor

• head; king

• first; president

The terms of the Concordat of 1801...

• declared Catholicism as the major religion of France

• gave church lands taken during the Revolution back to the church

• set bishops to be subservient to the regime

• abolished the position of the pope