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Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. Discuss the nature of the Estates system in France during the eighteenth century. Which segments of society comprised each of the Estates, and how united was each in its membership and goals?Was each estate a monolithic group? Explain.

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Key Terms Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? "hundred days"

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Key Terms Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

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The counterrevolutionary insurrections were the result of protests by the peasants


A) against taxation.
B) in support of the Catholic tradition.
C) in support of royalism.
D) against conscription.
E) all of the above

F) A) and C)
G) A) and E)

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Key Terms Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? Committee of Public Safety

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Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. Explain the succession of revolutions that transformed France from an absolute monarchy to a constitutional monarchy.

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Which of the following is NOT true of the Republic's policy of de-Christianization?


A) Priests were dismissed and church closed in many regions.
B) Churches were stripped of items that could be used to support the war effort.
C) Robespierre was the primary supporter of de-Christianization.
D) The Convention drew up a Republican calendar to replace the Old Christian calendar.
E) The cathedral of Notre Dame hosted a celebration of the goddess Reason.

F) None of the above
G) C) and E)

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Members of the rising French bourgeoisie were likely to express their new power by


A) getting younger sons influential positions in clerical orders.
B) buying land in the French countryside and living like nobles.
C) striving for university professorships if their sons were qualified.
D) seeking high positions in the colonies.
E) reinvestment in industry and patronage of the arts.

F) B) and C)
G) A) and B)

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In response to the Duke of Brunswick's manifesto, Parisians


A) issued a manifesto of their own declaring neutrality in the war.
B) attacked Louis XVI's palace and massacred hundred of his supporters.
C) arrested and executed Robespierre.
D) proclaimed their loyalty to Napoleon.
E) none of the above

F) B) and C)
G) A) and E)

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Which of the following best describes the Thermidoreans?


A) democrats
B) individuals favoring the 1789-1791 political system
C) members of the bourgeoisie who attempted to continue Robespierre's policies
D) "madmen" who stoke the fire of sans-culotte anger
E) socialists

F) A) and E)
G) B) and D)

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Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s). Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s).           Locate and label the areas where the Great Fear and the revolt in the Vendée occurred. Locate and label the areas where the Great Fear and the revolt in the Vendée occurred.

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Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. Was it inevitable that a Terror would erupt during the French Revolution? Why or why not?

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Key Terms Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? Concordat of 1801

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All of the following contributed to the French government's financial crisis in the 1780s EXCEPT


A) debt remaining from earlier wars.
B) the poverty of France.
C) tax exemptions for and tax evasion by the nobility, the clergy, and the wealthy bourgeoisie.
D) an inefficient tax collection system.
E) well-meaning but ineffective leadership.

F) C) and D)
G) B) and D)

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All of the following were attributes of the First Estate EXCEPT


A) an upper clergy associated with the nobility.
B) a lower clergy (parish priests) associated with commoners.
C) exemption from royal taxes.
D) possession of 30 percent of the land in France.
E) a state within a state, including censorship and tithes.

F) A) and E)
G) D) and E)

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The Third Estate took a solemn oath not to disband until a constitution had been drawn up


A) on the road to Versailles during a protest march.
B) at the meeting place of the parlement of Paris.
C) at the Bastille.
D) on a tennis court.
E) in the Paris grain market.

F) D) and E)
G) All of the above

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The Catholic Church in Old Regime France was responsible for


A) registering births, marriages, and deaths.
B) censoring books.
C) collecting the tithe.
D) controlling public worship.
E) all of the above

F) A) and B)
G) A) and E)

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Napoleon's "hundred days" proved


A) his continued immense popularity in France.
B) that Napoleon thoroughly understood the French soldier.
C) Napoleon's supreme self-confidence.
D) the weakness of the restored Bourbon dynasty in France.
E) all of the above

F) B) and E)
G) B) and D)

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The sans-culottes increasingly opposed the bourgeoisie because they


A) believed that the bourgeoisie was becoming the new privileged class.
B) envisioned a nation of small shopkeepers and farmers rather than one of big business and a truly free market.
C) believed laws should be passed to reduce economic inequality.
D) demanded that wages be increased and prices on food be controlled.
E) all of the above

F) A) and D)
G) None of the above

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Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. How did Napoleon both implement and undermine the ideals of the Enlightenment?

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