French & American Revolutions

How did the founders of the United States incorporate the idea of natural law into what eventually became the United States government?

• Through writing the Articles of Confederation

• Through writing and passing the Bill of Rights

• Through the political idea of Federalism

• Through new treaties with Great Britain

By the mid-1760s, the American colonists resented the taxes placed on them by George III and Parliament because

• the colonists felt it was unfair to pay taxes when they had no representative in Parliament to speak for them

• the colonists felt George III and Parliament were too far away to fairly govern the colonies

• the high taxes caused an increase in prices on many goods in the colonies causing the colonists financial hardship

• all of the above

All of the following were advantages the colonists had during the Revolutionary War EXCEPT

• the colonists did not fight using the accepted rules of warfare at the time, which allowed them to prolong the war and frustrate the British

• the colonists knew the land they were fighting in and could use it to their advantage

• George Washington was a master strategist who won nearly every battle he fought

• the Declaration of Independence had given the colonists an idea that could believe in and fight for

The man who is known as the “Father of the Constitution” is

• Thomas Jefferson

• Benjamin Franklin

• John Adams

• James Madison

In French society before the French Revolution, the First Estate was composed of the

• peasants

• Church

• nobility

• both the Church and the nobility

Which of the following statements about France’s social structure in the years before the French Revolution is true?

• The Third Estate was made up mostly of the clergy

• The Second Estate held the majority of the power

• The First and Second Estates enjoyed privileges the Third Estate did not

• The majority of the population belonged to the First Estate

What great privilege did the First and Second Estates enjoy over the Third Estate in France before the French Revolution?

• The First and Second Estates received priority when it came to food distribution

• The First and Second Estates were exempt from France’s mandatory military service

• The First and Second Estates held nearly all the political power in France

• The First and Second Estates were exempt from paying taxes

The people of Paris stormed the Bastille on July 14, 1789 because

• they believed there was a large supply of gunpowder stored inside

• they wanted to free Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette who were being held prisoner there

• they wanted to use it for protection from armed radical groups

• they wanted the massive food supplies that were stored there

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen declared the natural rights of man include liberty, property, security, and freedom from oppression.  Which Enlightenment thinker was mostly likely the inspiration for these ideas and document?

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

• Voltaire

• Adam Smith

The period of the French Revolution that lasted for nearly a year and took the lives of an estimated 17,000 people by the guillotine was called the

• Reign of Terror

• Reign of Blood

• Period of Chaos

• Age of Bloodshed