AP Euro: American Revolution, French Revolution & Napoleon

Question 1

Maximillan Robespierre led what group?

Accepted Answer

the Mountain

Question 2

How did Napoleon make the French Revolution an international movement in areas he conquered?

Accepted Answer

By abolishing feudalism and manorialism

Question 3

What was the name of the system that replaced medieval law with a uniform legal system?

Accepted Answer

Code Napoleon

Question 4

Which group represented itself as the protector of French people against the King?

Accepted Answer

Parlements

Question 5

Which group made up the First Estate?

Accepted Answer

The clergy

Question 6

Which event represents the irrational hatred that some Frenchmen had for Marie Antoinette?

Accepted Answer

Diamond Necklace Affair

Question 7

Napoleon's purpose in instituting the Continental System was to...

Accepted Answer

Defeat England through economic war

Question 8

What document is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen similar to?

Accepted Answer

The Declaration of Independence

Question 9

Why did the National Assembly seize the Church's land?

Accepted Answer

to help pay off the national debt.

Question 10

How did the Congress of Vienna hope to restore the European balance of power after the wars?

Accepted Answer

Surrounding France with strong states

Question 11

Who were the sans-culottes, and what was their role in the revolution?

Accepted Answer

Poor city dwellers who added zeal & brutality

Question 12

"Men are born and remain free and equal in Rights." is the first line to which document?

Accepted Answer

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen

Question 13

The Austrian and Prussian monarchs declared that they would rescue the French Monarchs in?

Accepted Answer

Declaration of Pillnitz

Question 14

What was one thing The Concordat of 1801 entailed?

Accepted Answer

The papacy renounces claims to land taken during revolution

Question 15

What was made by the National Assembly after being locked out of their meeting place?

Accepted Answer

Tennis Court Oath

Question 16

What period of the French Revolution is depicted in the picture?

Accepted Answer

The Great Fear

Question 17

What was the Congress of Vienna?

Accepted Answer

A group of reps. from the major powers of Europe

Question 18

What was a result of the March on Versailles?

Accepted Answer

A Parisian mob that forced the king to move to Tuileries

Question 19

The French Republic went to war to accomplish what goal?

Accepted Answer

Defend against possible Austrian aggression, To export revolution

Question 20

What was the Congress of Vienna's goal?

Accepted Answer

To restore the social and political order, To redraw territorial lines, To instate the rule of legitimacy

Question 21

Why did Napoleon keep Italy divided rather than unify it in 1809?

Accepted Answer

It posed a threat to French dominance

Question 22

Traditionally the clergy had supported which group?

Accepted Answer

nobility

Question 23

This event marked a turning point in the relations between Britain and its American colonies?

Accepted Answer

Seven Years War, French-Indian War

Question 24

What was the Congress of Vienna's goal?

Accepted Answer

To restore the social and political order, To instate the rule of legitimacy, To redraw territorial lines

Question 25

Who was the Paris newspaper editor whose death was depicted by Jacques Louis David?

Accepted Answer

Jean Paul Marat

Question 26

Which part of France was in open rebellion against the revolutionary government?

Accepted Answer

Vendee

Question 27

The least important impact on the American Revolution in France was...

Accepted Answer

Providing a revolutionary role model

Question 28

Which nations faced against Napoleon in the Battle of Leipzig?

Accepted Answer

Russia, Prussia, and Austria

Question 29

What is another name for the National Assembly?

Accepted Answer

Constituent Assembly

Question 30

Who's ideas & aims dominated the Congress of Vienna & after whom the age of reaction is named?

Accepted Answer

Metternich

Question 31

Why specifically was Napoleon abdicated as emperor on April 4, 1814?

Accepted Answer

He rejected the Frankfurt Proposals

Question 32

What did Great Britain do in response the Boston Tea Party?

Accepted Answer

Passed the Coercive Acts

Question 33

What was the name of the alliance made between England, Prussia, Russia and Austria in 1815?

Accepted Answer

Quadruple Alliance, The Concert of Europe

Question 34

The French Revolution became an international movement that overthrew what?

Accepted Answer

Feudal structures of the Old Regime

Question 35

What did the newly drafted constitution institute?

Accepted Answer

An elected Legislative Assembly

Question 36

Which of the following alienated the most French Catholic clerics and believers?

Accepted Answer

The Civil Constitution of the Clergy

Question 37

After a series of riots in the cities, what was caused by the further inaction of Louis XVI?

Accepted Answer

Parisian mobs stormed the Bastille

Question 38

What did the Great Fear entail?

Accepted Answer

The Third Estate destroyed feudal records, ending feudalism

Question 39

Who was the conservative historian who stated that the French Revolution went too far?

Accepted Answer

Edmund Burke

Question 40

Who was both a strong advocate for the Third Estate and served with Napoleon as a Consulate?

Accepted Answer

Sieyes

Question 41

The Bourbons were restored to the French throne under who?

Accepted Answer

Louis XVIII

Question 42

Approximately how many victims were claimed during the French Revolution?

Accepted Answer

40,000

Question 43

Which of the following Napoleon policies were most often used to cast him in a negative role?

Accepted Answer

His use of nepotism in government

Question 44

The immediate cause of the outbreak of revolution in 1789 was...

Accepted Answer

The government's financial crisis

Question 45

On what day did Napoleon overthrow the Directory?

Accepted Answer

18 Brumaire

Question 46

What was the name for the draft instituted by the Republican government?

Accepted Answer

Levee en Masse

Question 47

Where was Napoleon from?

Accepted Answer

Corsica

Question 48

What does "Authority from above . . confidence from Below," refer to?

Accepted Answer

Napoleon's use of the Plebiscite.

Question 49

The September Massacres saw

Accepted Answer

Prison inmates killed by sans-coulettes

Question 50

What caused France's financial problems before the revolution?

Accepted Answer

France's support of America during the Revolution., An inability to change its tax structure

AP Euro: American Revolution, French Revolution & Napoleon

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