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History: French Revolution and American Civil War
History: French Revolution and American Civil War
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Facts and quotes to identify for year 11 and 12 History students
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When did Lincoln say 'With malice toward none, with charity for all ... let us strive on'?
His 18th birthday speech
1st Inaugural Address
Gettysburg Address
2nd Inaugural Address
2
Who defined his nation's goal as 'a new birth of freedom'?
Abraham Lincoln
John Brown
Louis XVI
Maximilen Robespierre
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Who argued that common people needed to shake off the 'dead weight' of the 1st and 2nd Estates?
Abbé Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès
Jacques Necker
Maximilen Robespierre
William Lloyd Garrison
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Who was 'The Incorruptible'?
Maximilien Robespierre
Jean Paul Marat
Abraham Lincoln
Dr Powell
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The name of an attempt to transform the system completely, by sweeping it all away.
Civil War
Rebellion
Revolution
Revolt
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The National Guard massacre of fellow revolutionaries who were protesting in Paris, July 1791.
The March on Versailles
Champs de Mars Massacre
Storming of the Tuileries
Storming of the Bastille
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When a landowner allows people to live on his land, in return for taxes and unpaid work.
Oppression
Slavery
Feudalism
Ancien Regime
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Which 1862 battle of the Civil War proved that the war would not be won quickly?
Fredericksburg
Bull Run
Shiloh
Antietam
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What made slaves held in states in rebellion 'then, thenceforward, and forever free'?
The 13th Amendment
The 14th Amendment
The Gettysburg Address
The Emancipation Proclamation
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Who said, ‘Man is born free, and yet is everywhere in chains’?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, philosophe
John Brown, abolitionist
Maximilien Robespierre, politician
Abraham Lincoln, politician
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When the mob massacred the king's guards in his palace in central Paris, August 1792.
Storming of the Bastille
The March on Versailles
Champs de Mars Massacre
Storming of the Tuileries
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The name of a fight between citizens of the same country.
Rebellion
Revolt
Revolution
Civil War
13
How many people were killed during the Reign of Terror (September 1793 - July 1794)?
None
30,000
3,000
300,000
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What major campaign broke the spirit of the South by attacking civilian infrastructure?
The March to the Sea
The Battle of Shiloh
The March on Washington
The Siege of Petersburg
15
What was the nickname of Ulysses S. Grant after his victories at Shiloh and Fort Donelson?
Unbelievably Stupid Grant
Stonewall Grant
Unconditional Surrender Grant
USA Grant
16
When did Lincoln say the USA was 'dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal'?
His 18th birthday speech
Gettysburg Address
2nd Inaugural Address
1st Inaugural Address
17
Who said, 'The crimes of this guilty land can never be purged away but with blood'?
Maximilien Robespierre, politician
Abraham Lincoln, politician
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, philosophe
John Brown, abolitionist
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Who was 'The Great Emancipator'?
Abraham Lincoln
Dr Powell
Jean Paul Marat
Maximilien Robespierre
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What abolished slavery and involuntary servitude (except as punishment for a crime)?
The Gettysburg Address
The 13th Amendment
The Emancipation Proclamation
The 14th Amendment
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Who said, 'Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible'?
Jean Paul Marat
Pres. Abraham Lincoln
Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
Maximilien Robespierre
21
300,000 people, who held noble titles and were exempt from many laws and taxes.
The Second Estate
Slaveholders
The Jacobins
The First Estate
22
How many people were killed during the American Civil War (1861-1865)?
No-one knows
1.1 million
120,000
620,000
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400,000 landowners, who held other people in bondage.
The First Estate
Slaveholders
The Second Estate
The Democrats
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Men are born equal with rights of 'liberty, property, safety and resistance against oppression'
U.N. Convention on Human Rights
U.S. Constitution
Gettysburg Address
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
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What writer said '
It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong'
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Walt Whitman
William Lloyd Garrison
Abbé Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Who said, 'War is cruelty' and 'War is hell'?
Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
Gen. Robert E. Lee
Pres. Abraham Lincoln
