WORLD HISTORY CHAPTER 22 THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND NAPOLEON

Reflecting Enlightenment thought, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen proclaimed

• the importance of the Bastille.

• an end to aristocratic privileges.

• a movement to restore the monarchy.

• equal rights for women in political life.

Louis XVI was forced to accept the National Assembly’s decrees because

• the army turned against him and threatened to execute him.

• it was the only way he could remain mayor of Paris.

• thousands of armed Parisians descended on the palace.

• his attempt to escape to Poland had failed.

The threat of foreign intervention to restore Louis XVI to the throne caused the French Revolution to

• become more radical.

• spread to other countries.

• pursue the goal of equality.

• fail in its attempt to reform French society.

Because it could not govern effectively after the Reign of Terror, the Directory had to

• agree to share power with the clergy.

• turn to the bourgeoisie for protection.

• rely upon the military to enforce its authority.

• abolish slavery in the French colonies.

Which of the following conditions caused the collapse of Napoleon’s Grand Empire?

• France’s strong economy

• laziness within his bureaucracy

• the drain of Napoleon’s many wars

• the spread of liberalism

liberalism

• belief that people should be free from government restraint

• the middle class, including professionals

• right of powerful nations to maintain order throughout Europe

• members of the Paris Commune who wore long pants to

  identify with common people

Klemens von Metternich

• leader of the Committee of Public Safety who enforced

  policies of the Reign of Terror

• prison attacked at the outset of the French Revolution

• post-revolutionary leader who advocated restoring the

  monarchy throughout Europe

• the unique cultural identity of a people

sans-culottes

• right of powerful nations to maintain order throughout Europe

• members of the Paris Commune who wore long pants to

  identify with common people

• belief that people should be free from government restraint

• the middle class, including professionals

bourgeoisie

• a sudden overthrow of the government

• prison attacked at the outset of the French Revolution

• members of the Paris Commune who wore long pants to

  identify with common people

• the middle class, including professionals

principle of intervention

• right of powerful nations to maintain order throughout Europe

• belief that people should be free from government restraint

• a sudden overthrow of the government

• Napoleon’s plan to weaken the British economy