Chapter 19, The French Revolution

Name ______________________ Per._____

1. How was a rich nation like France dragged into a revolution because they could not raise enough tax revenue
to pay their bills. (3 pts)
2. What did Maupon do to reduce the French financial problem and what led to his lack of success? (2pts)
3. What was Neckers revelation and the outcomes? (3 pts)
4. When Calonne met with the council of notables what did they call for and what did they believe would be the
outcome of such a reconvening? (3 pts)
5. When Brienne, the new finance minister asked the church assembly to assist after he discovered how bad
finances were, how did they respond?
6. After the estates general were convened in 1789 what union radicalized the revolution and what does that
mean? (2 pts)
7. Explain Abbe Sieves quote, What is the third estate found on page 630. column 1.
8. What were the two moves the aristocracy made to organize the Estates General that would enrage the Third
Estate? Explain why this action was so unfair. (3 pts)
9. What did the royal council do to the size of the Third estate and why? (3pts)
10. What are cahiers de Dolances? What was the overwhelming demand made? (2 pts)
11. What events led up to the creation of the National Assembly? (3 pts)
12. What exactly was the Tennis Court Oath?
13. Had the National Assembly been successful and had nothing else occurred, how would the government of
France have been transformed? (3 pts)
14. What two factors led to the storming of the Bastille? (2 pts)
15. What was the Great Fear and how did the Assembly squelch it? (4 pts)
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16. What influenced the creation of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and what four basic principles were
expressed in the document? (5 pts)

17. What were key issues of concern for women? (4 pts)

18. Why did the king finally sanction the Assemblys decrees? What other demand was required of the king &
his family? (2pts)
19. How was the course charted by the Assembly similar to that of the liberals of the nineteenth century? (7 pts)
20. How did the Constitution of 1791 reorganize French government? (5 pts)
21. Explain the suffrage limits place upon voting in the new constitution.
22. How had the acquisition of political power changed?
23. Who was Olympia de Gouges and outline the points in her document. (6 pts)
24. How did the map of France change under the new government? What happened to the parlements? (2pts)
25. What was the Chapelier Law?
26. Why were the debts accumulated by the crown NOT repudiated (dissolved, ignored, cancelled) under the
new laws?
27. How did the Assembly decide to finance the massive debt?
28. What action led to the Papal attack on liberalism that would continue throughout the entire 19th century?
(5pts) Who were the refractory clergy? (6pts total)

29. Explain the Declaration of Pillnitz and why it wasnt a very serious threat. (2pts)
30. Outline the reactions and events that were occurring outside France at this time in reaction to the revolution.
(8 pts)

31. Who were the Jacobins, the Girondists and outline their impact on furthering the revolution? (8 pts)
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32. What impact did war w/ Austria have on the revolution?

33. Who was Pauline Leon and what did she demand? (2 pts)
34. What did the Duke of Brunswick contribute to the war and revolution? (2 pts)
35. Who were the sans-culottes? (4pts)

36. Who were the Mountain and how did they compare w/ previous Jacobin policy? (2 pts)
37. Who was Citizen Capet and what happened to him? (2pts)
38. Why did the Mountain come to power? (4pts)

39. How did Edmund Burke perceive the revolution and what points/predictions did he make about the
revolution? (3 pts)
40. Explain the dramatic oppressive policies that emerged in England in response to the revolution. (4 pts)

41. What were the goals of the first coalition and who were the members? (9 pts)

42. Why did the Reign of Terror take place? (2pts)

43. What were the motives of the Committee of Public Safety? (3pts)
44. Explain what the levee en masse was and its historical significance. (4 pts)

45. Explain Robespierres believe about virtue.

46. What did Robespierre believe about terror? (3 pts)

47. Why did the Jacobin leaders use Rousseau to suppress their female supporters? (5 pts)
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48. What happened to Olympe de Gouges?

49. Outline the attempts made by the revolutionary government to de-Christianize France. (8 pts)

50. What was the purpose of the tribunals, who were their victims and how were the sentences carried out?
(3pts)
51. Why did Robespierre turn the terror on those around him?
51. How did Robespierre fall?
52. What was the Thermidorian Reaction and outline the steps that were taken to return France to normalcy?
(15 pts) (must have 15)
53. What was the directory and how did it differ from the previous government? (10 pts)