Age of Revolutions: Effects

Identify the two principles of the French Revolution that Napoleon Bonaparte sought to spread within his empire.

• people's government

• religious toleration

• legal equality

• political freedom for women

How did the spread of the principles of the French revolution affect the nobility and the clergy in the inner core and the dependent states of Napoleon's Grand Empire?

• They were given more rights.

• They lost their land and farms.

• They were allowed to draft laws.

• They lost their special privileges.

In the eighteenth century, the ______ in Latin America resented the peninsulares, who dominated Latin America and drained the region of its wealth.

• caudillos

• kaisers

• daimyo lords

• creole elites

"enemies of the revolution" were executed by the Committee of Public Safety (irony) by guillotine, along with a new calendar, titles, and universal suffrage

• American

• French

• Haitian

• Latin American

Women were a key part of all revolutions, but particularly this one, where women stormed the royal palace forcing the royal family to return to the capital and called for their rights to be recognized (although they were not)

• American

• French

• Haitian

• Latin American

The result of these revolutions were countries that were less democratic, more underdeveloped, and politically unstable than their neighbors.

• American

• French

• Latin American

This nation was forced to pay an "independence debt" for its successful revolution.

• America

• Brazil

• Mexico

• Haiti

Which of the following was NOT among the radical measures taken by the new Revolutionary government in France? 

• Creating an entirely new calendar with 1792 as Year One
• Granting independence to all French colonies
• Instituting a universal male draft to create the largest army in the world
• Replacing some churches with "Temples of Reason"

What was the most distinctive feature of the Haitian Revolution?  

• Its status as the only completely successful slave revolt in world history. 
• The success of different races at putting aside differences in the name of the revolution. 
• Its failure to influence the populations of other Caribbean islands.
•  Its relative lack of violence.

The chief beneficiaries of all but one of the Atlantic revolutions were  

• upper-middle class men who owned property.

• upper class, aristocratic women. 
• lower class white men who did not own property. 
• slaves and indentured servants.