French Revolution and Napoleon

During 1793-1794, Robespierre and the Committee of Public Safety owed much of their influence to the support of

• Catholics angered by the Civil Constitution of the Clergy

• liberal nobles eager to promote economic progress.

• provincial middle-class businessmen concerned about excessive centralization of government.

• a group of small property owners and wage laborers in Paris who were concerned about high food prices.

During the Jacobin domination of France in 1793 the government did all of the following EXCEPT

• institute the metric system

• make all property communal.

• set price limits on bread

• change the calendar.

“As historians from Karl Marx through Georges Lefebre and Albert Soboul have argued, the main accomplishment of the French Revolution was to abolish feudalism in France and to clear the ground for capitalist economic expansion and the rule of the bourgeoisie.”

Which of the following views is consistent with the interpretation above?

• The Revolution strengthened the domination of landed proprietors in France.

• The Revolution eliminated guilds, seigneurial rights, and other obstacles to French agricultural and industrial advance.

• The long-term transition from feudalism to capitalism occurred over many centuries, not between 1789 and 1794.

• The Revolution abolished private property in France and thus created a modern democratic society.

• Both before and after the Revolution, France was ruled by leaders drawn from the ranks of the nobility and bourgeoisie.

The sequence of events that led to the French Revolution of 1789 is best summarized by which of the following?

• Lafayette’s call for democracy, royal suppression of the National Assembly, Robespierre’s leading a peasant revolution

• Peasant uprisings, royal abdication, election of the National Assembly

• Widespread famine, repression of riots, guerrilla war

• Royal financial crisis, convening of the Estates General, storming of the Bastille

Which of the following caused the deepest and most persistent internal opposition to the French Revolution?

• Napoleon’s coup of 18 Brumaire

• The advent of the Thermidorean reaction

• The publication of Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France

• The enactment of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy

This excerpt is most likely from which of the following documents?

“Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinction may be based only on common utility….The goal of every political association is the preservation of the natural and inalienable rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression….The free communication of thoughts and opinions is one of the most precious rights of man; every citizen may thus speak, write and publish freely….”

• Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen

• Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen

• Reflections on the Revolution in France

• The Napoleonic Code

All of the following were reasons the French Revolution became more radical after 1792 EXCEPT

• the threat of invasion from nations threatened by the revolution.

• vicious attacks against the king by army officers led by Napoleon.

• uncontrolled inflation that harmed workers in Paris and other cities.

• counterrevolutionary efforts by émigrés.

• fear that the king did not support and sought to undermine the revolution.

Which of the following resulted from the National Assembly’s passage of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy in 1790?

• an accommodation was reached between the revolution and the papacy.

• The Catholic Church was brought under control of the French state.

• Rebellious members of the clergy were given amnesty for antirevolutionary actions.

• all religious activities and members of the clergy were outlawed

All of the following represent significant accomplishments of the so-called Liberal Phase of the French Revolution (1789-1791) EXCEPT

• the writing of a constitution

• The Declaration of the Rights of Man

• elimination of government debt

• Abolition of feudalism

During the French revolutionary Reign of Terror (1793-1794), the Jacobins instituted all of the following policies EXCEPT

• mobilization of people and resources for total war

• promoting the equal participation of women in politics.

• attempting to counter inflation through price controls.

• launching a campaign to de-Christianize France.

• abolishing slavery in French colonies.