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	The financial problem of the French government in the eighteenth century lay   in the incompetence of its financial ministers. with the king's inability to tap the wealth of the French nation. with the dominance of the Catholic Church over the royal government. in the dissension among the nobility.

	The chief reason for the tremendous French debt was a succession of indecisive finance ministers.    True  False

	The Estates General was called   to divide the nobility into two groups in order to reduce its power. to restrict the power of the monarch. to decide about further support of American revolutionary efforts. to decide whether new taxes on the nobility should be instated.

	The First, Second and Third Estates represented which groups of society respectively?   clergy, nobility, commoners commoners, clergy, nobility nobility, commoners, clergy clergy, commoners, nobility

	The famous "Tennis Court Oath" was taken   in order to call for the king's abdication. by the Second Estate in order to quell the rioting in Paris. after the Third Estate left the Estates-General. by the First Estate in response to the formation of the National Assembly.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. On July 14, somewhat more than 800 people marched to the in search of weapons for the militia.

	The "Great Fear" refers to   a political uprising by sans-culottes that resulted in hundreds of executions. the reactionary policy of the church regarding Deism. peasant disturbances that destroyed aristocratic property. an aristocratic reaction to the storming of the Bastille.

	Most of the members of the National Constituent Assembly wished to create   a constitutional monarchy. a classical democracy. a democracy with communal property. a republic.

	The National Constituent Assembly pursued policies of   constitutional monarchy in government, rationalism in administration, regulated freedom in economics, and anticlericalism in religion. constitutional monarchy in government, rationalism in administration, unregulated freedom in economics, and pro-clericalism in religion. constitutional monarchy in government, rationalism in administration, unregulated freedom in economics, and anticlericalism in religion. constitutional anarchy in government, rationalism in administration, unregulated freedom in economics, and anticlericalism in religion.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Olympe de Gouges wrote a "."

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The Assembly established the system to standardize weights and measures.

	King Louis XVI supported the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, since it reduced the power of a social group that tended to oppose his policies.    True  False

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The Assembly lasted only from 1791 to 1792.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The political group known as the had been the most advanced political group in the National Constituent Assembly and had pressed for a republic rather than a constitutional monarchy.

	The war against Austria declared in 1792   resulted in British involvement in French domestic politics. radicalized the masses and led to a second revolution. united the aristocracy against the forces of revolution. disrupted the revolution and allowed noble émigrés to return to France.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. A second revolution overthrew the constitutional monarchy and established a .

	The French Revolution had been widely opposed throughout Europe from the beginning.    True  False

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund became a handbook for European conservatives for decades.

	William Pitt the Younger used the French Revolution to further his reform agenda in Great Britain.    True  False

	France occupied the Austrian Netherlands.    True  False

	The Reign of Terror was a worsening of the Great Fear.    True  False

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. During the crucial months of late 1793 and early 1794, the person who emerged as the chief figure on the Committee of Public Safety was , one of the major figures behind the Reign of Terror.

	The Society of Revolutionary Republican Women   were among the first groups to be suppressed by the Terror. were radical supporters of the revolution. Neither of these. Both of these.

	In November 1793, the Cathedral of Notre Dame became the headquarters of the Jacobin party.    True  False

	The government of the Directory was primarily supported by   the Catholic Church. Napoleon Bonaparte. the sans-culottes. the military.

	Legislation under the Directory left women with somewhat less freedom than they had enjoyed before 1789.    True  False

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The general in charge of suppressing royalist insurrections in Paris in October 1795 was .

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