AP Euro Revolution and Industrialization

Question 1

What procedural dispute at the Estates-General in May–June 1789 led the Third Estate to declare itself the National Assembly?

Accepted Answer

Whether voting would be by order, with one vote per estate, or by individual head

Answer

Voting by order let the clergy and nobility outvote the Third Estate two to one. The Third Estate demanded voting by head, and when this was refused it broke away and declared itself the National Assembly.

Question 2

Which of the following best summarizes the central argument of Abbé Sieyès's pamphlet "What Is the Third Estate?" (1789)?

Accepted Answer

The Third Estate was the productive body of the nation and therefore deserved political power matching its importance

Answer

Sieyès argued that the Third Estate was everything in the nation yet had been treated as nothing politically. It should therefore have real representation.

Question 3

What was the main effect of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1790) in revolutionary France?

Accepted Answer

It made the Catholic Church a branch of the state, with clergy elected and required to swear loyalty

Answer

The law made priests and bishops state-paid officials chosen by voters and required them to swear an oath to the constitution. This divided the clergy and alienated many Catholics from the Revolution.

Question 4

Which development most directly marked the shift to the Reign of Terror in 1793–1794?

Accepted Answer

The Committee of Public Safety's use of revolutionary tribunals and the Law of Suspects to suppress perceived enemies

Answer

Facing foreign war and internal revolt, the Committee of Public Safety, with Robespierre as a leading figure, used the Law of Suspects and tribunals to execute tens of thousands of suspected opponents.

Question 5

The Haitian Revolution, beginning in 1791 in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, is historically significant because it:

Accepted Answer

produced the only successful large-scale slave uprising that led to an independent state ruled by former slaves

Answer

Enslaved people, led most famously by Toussaint Louverture, defeated colonial and foreign forces, and Haiti declared independence in 1804. It became the first independent state in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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AP Euro Revolution and Industrialization