Exam 18: The French Revolution

Although the French government had been ruled by one committee or another since the revolution began in 1789,this came to an end in 1799 when Napoleon Bonaparte assumed the title of:

Which of the following was a member of the French Committee of Public Safety?

At the Battle of the Nations,fought near Leipzig:

The Russian campaign of 1812 was marked by minor fighting until the Russians made a stand just outside Moscow at:

The September Massacres only killed seven prisoners,five of whom were petty criminals and two who were mentally incompetent.

The economic system created by Napoleon Bonaparte to starve British trade was known as the:

Who were included or excluded in the Declaration of the Rights of Man,and what does this reveal about French society on the eve of revolution?

The Haitian Revolution was important because it:

Peasants in prerevolutionary France paid a disproportionate share of the taxes,such as the corvée and the tithe to the Church,but the most onerous of these was the tax on:

What worldwide effects did the Haitian Revolution have?

The leader of the Haitian Revolution,who did not live to see independence,was:

When fighting the Russians in Moscow,Napoleon torched the city,leaving no place for the Russians to shelter.

In general,it can be stated that Maximilien Robespierre was:

The naval battle in 1805 between the French and British naval forces was won by:

What factors account for the rising levels of violence and radicalism in the French Revolution?

The summer of 1792 was when:

The meeting of the Estates-General was radicalized from the beginning because of the positions taken by the members of the Third Estate and also because of the published popular views of _________,a member of the First Estate:

The Fall of the Bastille,the "Great Fear," and the "October Days" were all important because they:

When the Committee of Public Safety fell from power in 1794,it was replaced by a more moderate group known as the:

Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated for the last time in Belgium at the battle of: