Absolutism & Revolutions Review

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France was deep in debt because: money spent on the American Revolution, Marie Antoinette's lavish spending, the 1st and 2nd estates did not pay taxes, all of the above

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all of the above

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The Second Estate was composed of 

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Nobility

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Most of the people of France belonged to the 

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3rd Estate

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What was the Divine Right of Kings?

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God given right to rule

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Brilliant military leader who could be described as ruthlessly ambitious

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Napoleon Bonaparte

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Revolutionaries responded to the king on July 24th by seizing this prison...

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Bastille

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Which of these contributed to the start of the French Revolution?
Options: defeat and occupation by Prussian army, rejection of Enlightenment ideas, participation in the American Revolution, the rise of Napoleon

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participation in the American Revolution

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How could the absolute monarchy of Louis XVI best be described? Options: democracy, constitutional government, limited government, unlimited government

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unlimited government

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Which of the following was an underlying, or deep-rooted, cause of the French Revolution? Options: unequal tax burdens, equal land ownership, a law granting peasants more freedom, a growing French empire

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unequal tax burdens

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What was the final outcome of the French Revolution?

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Napoleon naming himself Emperor of France