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World History Scientific Rev - Napoleon
World History Scientific Rev - Napoleon
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The event that symbolically began the Revolution & is still celebrated today
Tennis Court Oath
Storming of the Bastille
Louis XVI’s execution
Convening of the Estates-General
2
Every day workers or “those without knee-breeches.”
émigrés
Jacobins
sans-culottes
refugees
3
All of the following are effects of the Enlightenment EXCEPT
emphasis on the importance of the individual
belief in progress
an increase in the authority of the church
challenges to the existing social & political order
4
It recognized Catholicism as France's religion & raised Napoleon’s popularity with the people.
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Napoleonic Code
Concordat of 1801
Justinian Code
5
Englishman who became the Father of physics & is known for his law of gravity.
Montesquieu
Johannes Kepler
Rene Descartes
Isaac Newton
6
Who were the monarchs of France before and during the French Revolution?
Mary I & Philip II
Marie Antoinette & Louis XVI
Maria Theresa & Joseph II
Elizabeth I & Louis XIV
7
One
short
term cause of the French Revolution was
refusal by the Third Estate to pay taxes
the invasion by the Prussian and Austrian armies
food shortages & the rising cost of BREAD
lower class resentment of the wealth of the Catholic Church
8
Louis XVI called this “political body” to meet for the 1st time in more than 175 years.
National Assembly
Parliament
Estates-General
National Convention
9
Napoleon's 3 BIG mistakes that led to his downfall included all of the following EXCEPT
Continental System
Concordat of 1801
The Peninsular War
Invasion of Russia
10
The eighteenth-century philosophes believed that society could best achieve progress through
hard work and self-denial
intuition
scientific empiricism.
prayer and contemplation
11
This vote of the people made Napoleon leader of France for life.
referendum
diplomacy
plebiscite
Coup d'etat
12
Lycees were created to
to ensure France’s citizens were Educated.
encourage business growth.
create equality of opportunity
retain seized Church lands.
13
All of the following were radical figures of the revolution EXCEPT
Metternich
Marat
Danton
Robespierre
14
Social critics who discussed politics, ideas & believed you could apply reason to all things
clergy
enlightened despots
philosophes
15
All of the following are effects of the American Revolution in France EXCEPT
increasing the financial burdens of the state
provided revenge against the English
served as a revolutionary role model
providing proof that a republic could be created & function
16
The Peninsular War was a war between France and ____________.
Great Britain
Spain
Russia
Austria
17
All of the following were long-term causes of the French Revolution EXCEPT
the Enlightenment
a high accumulation of debt
the rising cost & scarcity of bread
the American Revolution
18
Enlightenment religious view of God as creator-clockmaker.
Atheism
Deism
Skepticism
Monotheism
19
The Continental System was created to
create equality of opportunity
encourage business growth.
retain seized Church lands.
damage Great Britain economically.
20
The main purpose of the women’s march to Versailles in 1789 was to
provide the king with a declaration of support
ensure the king’s support for the Declaration of Rights
present the women’s concerns to Marie Antoinette
to protest the seizure of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
21
His
On the Spirit of the Laws
proposed a separation of powers & the 3 branches of government.
Rousseau
John Locke
Thomas Hobbes
Montesquieu
22
Rene Descartes and Francis Bacon contributed to scientific development by
perfecting the metric system
making observations of planetary movements
conducting experiments about gravitational forces
articulating theories of the scientific method.
23
This estate was composed of the French nobility.
Second Estate
Third Estate
First Estate
Fourth Estate
24
He helped to spread the ideas of the Enlightenment through the Encyclopedia he edited
Montesquieu
Thomas Hobbes
Diderot
Rousseau
25
The Scientific Revolution overturned the accepted ideas of which of the following?
Galileo
Aristotle
Copernicus
Vesalius
26
Name for the nobles & clergy who fled France during the Revolution.
sans-culottes
refugees
émigrés
Jacobins
27
He first provided the math to support Copernicus & explain laws of planetary motion
Isaac Newton
Galileo
Johannes Kepler
Tycho Brahe
28
The guillotine was the most popular means of execution during the French Revolution because it
it was demeaning to its victims.
it appeased the blood-thirsty mobs.
it was perceived as being more humane than previous methods
was cost-effective
29
The National Assembly was established by the
the aristocracy
the sans-culottes
Third Estate
King Louis XVI
