Revolution Review

What was the primary difference between the two main political factions during the French Revolution?

a. The Royalists supported monarchy while Jacobins wanted a republic

b. The Jacobins supported monarchy while Royalists wanted a republic

c. Both groups supported the monarchy

d. Both groups opposed the monarchy

Why were the Jacobins considered radicals?

a. They went with the norm and caused no problems.

b. The Royalists called them such because they supported the monarch.

c. The Jacobins wanted to dismantle the old regime and create a republic.

d. The Jacobins supported the estates system and wished it to continue.

What was the main purpose of the Revolutionary Tribunal during the Reign of Terror?

a. To determine if someone was innocent or should be put to death for opposing the Revolution

b. To imprison people

c. To exile people for supporting the Jacobins

d. It could pardon all accused citizens

What enabled Napoleon Bonaparte's rise to power in France?

a. The French Revolution and political instability

b. His noble birth and royal connections

c. Support from foreign powers

d. His success as a merchant

Analyze the relationship between the Three Estates. Which statement best explains why tension existed between them?

a. The First and Second Estates had more members than the Third Estate

b. The Third Estate paid most taxes while the privileged estates paid none, despite their wealth

c. The Third Estate had more political power than the other estates

d. The Church and nobility were constantly fighting each other

How did Louis XVI's spending habits contribute to the inevitability of the French Revolution?

a. His frugal nature angered the nobles

b. His spending on wars and luxuries led to deficit spending while refusing to tax the wealthy

c. He increased taxes on the First and Second Estates

d. He spent too much money supporting the Third Estate

What was the significance of the voting system of the Estates System? Why was it problematic?

a. It gave too much power to the Third Estate

b. It allowed equal representation for all estates

c. It enabled the First and Second Estates to always out-vote the Third Estate, even though the Third Estate had the largest population.

d. It prevented any decisions from being made at all

American Revolution:  What significant event led Britain to impose new taxes on the American colonies?

a. The French and Indian War expenses

b. The Boston Tea Party

c. The Declaration of Independence

d. King George III's coronation

American Revolution:   Which major colonial response to British taxation became a famous rallying cry?

a. Give me liberty or give me death

b. United we stand, divided we fall

c. No taxation without representation

d. God save the king

American Revolution: What was the purpose of the Stamp Act?

a. It declared war on the newly emerged American postal service

b. It was a way of forming militias to fight British soldiers

c. It imposed a tax on all paper goods the colonists had to buy

d. It made sure the colonists bought all their postal stamps from Great Britain