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What was the popular death penalty during the French Revolution, which gained fame due to its quick and humane killing?
What is Guillotine
100
What is the term for government staying out of the picture and let people do what they want?
What is Laissez-faire
100
Who is the founder of modern Economics?
What is Adam Smith
100
How did Louis XIV help France get into their financial crisis?
What is spending large amounts on nonsense items.
100
In the Estates-General, how was voting conducted?
What is one vote for each estate
200
What helped spread new ideas quickly and easily?
What is printing press
200
How did the Committee of Public Safety identify enemies of the state?
What is anybody against the cause
200
Who believed people were born with a blank mind?
What is John Locke
200
What were the groups of people that made up each of the estates?
What is clergy, nobles, peasants
200
How might a king removed from power (but still alive) be dangerous to the republic?
What is rallying point
300
What was the application of the scientific movement to an understanding of all life?
What is Reason
300
What were policies adopted by the Committee of Public Safety to prosecute traitors?
What is Reign of Terror
300
Why did the National Convention condemn and guillotine Robespierre?
What is What is He had information about traitors but he refused to show it to the public. Fearing for their lives, the Convention condemned him.
300
Who was called upon to participate in the war effort? How is this different from previous wars?
What is What is the people, people's war
300
What were the THREE major parts of Napoleon’s Empire?
What is French Empire, Dependent states, Allied states
400
What were Napoleon’s first THREE domestic policies after becoming Emperor?
What is What is Restore the Church, Codify the laws, New bureaucracy
400
What were TWO changes to society in Robespierre’s Republic of Virtue?
What is de-Christianize, long dress, abolish slavery, citizen
400
Who was the newspaper writer during the Revolution who stirred up the public by writing of the wrongdoings by political leaders?
What is Jean-Paul Marat
400
What were the TWO main reasons that Napoleon's empire collapsed?
What is What is Britain’s ability to resist Napoleon and the rise of nationalism.
400
What is the system that prevents any one person or group from gaining too much power?
What is Separation of Powers
500
What Enlightenment thinker believed that God was the clockmaker of the universe and his only job was to set the universe in motion.
What is Voltaire
500
What were the two groups of radicals, and how did they differ?
What is What is Girondins- king alive Jacobins- king dead
500
Who said that it is the citizen’s fault that we are controlled by the government because we created someone to govern us?
What is Rousseau
500
What was the name of Napoleon's system for starving out Britain? Why didn't it work?
What is What is Continental System. Didn't work because the Allied nations refused to follow it.
500
What were the THREE things that a lenient government is supposed to do for their citizens?
What is What is Protect society from invasion, Defend citizens from injustice, Keep up public works