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French Revolution Exam Revision (CONSEQUENCES)

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On average what percentage of the clergy refused to take the Clerical Oath?
50
What was the name of the King's brother who fled from France two days after the fall of the Bastille?
Comte d'Artois
The discovery of a secret chest in Tuileries, in a scandal known as 'armoire de fer', discredited which noble revolutionary?
Mirabeau
Diplomatic relations ended between France and Rome when which clerical official was recalled by the Pope in 1791?
the Papal Nuncio
Which Constitution brought about the Republic and abolished the distinction between active and passive citizens?
Constitution of 1793
By late 1792 what percentage of French tax revenue was being paid?
50
In February 1793 sans-culottes imposed 'popular taxation'; they insisted on paying food prices typical of which year?
1790
When did France declare war on Austria?
April 1792
Which revolutionary politician declared, 'We cannot be calm until Europe, all of Europe, is in flames'
Brissot
Which political club favoured republicanism, popular democracy and was the dominant influence during the Terror?
Jacobins
Name the political club led by Brissot who favoured revolutionary war.
Girondins
Which political club (the most radical of the revolution, popular among the san-culottes) called for the General Maximum?
Cordeliers
At the King's trial (January 1793) which faction were in favour of abdication but not the death penalty?
Girondins
Although the August Decrees (1789) claimed to end feudalism, this was not fully abolished (without compensation) until 1793 by which faction?
Jacobins
Which constitution made Louis 'King of the French' and distinguished between active and passive citizens?
Constitution of 1791
Which constitution abolished the distinction between active and passive citizens and included the right to insurrection?
Constitution of 1793
Which constitution included the Declaration of the Rights and DUTIES of Citizen and distinguished between active and passive citizens?
Constitution of 1795
In which year did taxation become universal and proportional?
1789
The sale of confiscated land from which group was sold in small, affordable plots to peasants in June 1793?
noble emigres
What was divided equally in June 1793?
common land in villages
The Convention abolished colonial slavery in which year?
1794
Who reversed the decision to abolish the French colonial slave trade?
Napoleon
Which group provoked slave uprisings in Saint Domingue in 1791 and again, more successfully, in 1794?
Society of Friends of the Blacks
Confiscated church land (November 1789) that was re-sold by the revolutionary government was known by what name?
biens-nationaux
The Pope was no longer head of the French Church under which law?
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
Priests became civil servants under which law?
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
In April 1791 an angry mob prevented Louis from travelling to Saint-Cloud where he was to receive the Easter Mass from...
a refractory priest
What constitutional power did Louis use to block laws regarding priests and emigres?
suspensive veto
On the eve of the September Massacres, Danton warned Parisians that they had 'traitors in your...'
bosom
Danton declared in October 1792: 'Let us [the Convention] be X, in order that the people are not so'; what is X?
terrible
Later Danton called for an end to The Terror, and was executed (April 1794) for being...
an Indulgent
What was the name of the Marat's newspaper that routinely incited the sans-culottes to militant revolutionary action?
L'Ami du Peuple
On 14 July 1790 the Fete de la Federation was held on the Champ de Mars; here Lafayette controlled a crowd of...
300,000
In August 1792, Lafayette defected to the...
Austrians
Prior to the revolution, the south-western department of Lot-et-Garonne had 65 different ways of measuring length; this changed with introduction of which system of measurement?
metric
Which law of June 1791 outlawed associations of workers and strengthened the position of employers?
Le Chapelier Law
Religious orders, except those which taught children and ministered to the sick, were abolished in February of which year?
1790
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy (July 1790) ended the practice by which bishops could represent more than one diocese; by what name was this old clerical abuse known?
plurality
Over the course of the Revolution, what percentage of the clergy emigrated?
25
Under the Constitutions of 1791 and 1795, sans-culottes were generally what kind of 'citizen'?
passive
What name was given to the 48 suburban assemblies of Paris that were dominated by the sans culottes?
Sections
Between 1790 and 1795 prices increased by percentage?
750
Name the Jacobin member of the Committee of General Security who declared in September 1793 that women were 'not capable of elevated thought or careful reflection...'
Amar
In which year were peasants free from the tithe and feudal dues without having to pay compensation?
1793
Before 1789 peasants owned about 30% of the land; what percentage did they own as a result of the revolution?
40
Following the abolition of the tithe, peasants were free to produce crops suited to local conditions and market demand; in the department of the Aude, for example, in the 30 years following the Revolution, by what percentage did vineyards expand?
75
What proportion of noble land-holdings were seized and sold during the Revolution?
one fifth
Fifty years after the outbreak of revolution, what proportion of the richest men in France were former nobles?
two thirds
In real terms, an average provincial noble family's income fell from 8,000 to how many francs per annum?
5,200
The property of emigres was confiscated by the Assembly in February 1792; this land was known as...
biens nationaux
In percentage terms, what proportion of the Second Estate emigrated during the French Revolution?
15
Despite the renunciation of feudalism in August 1789, what was finally abolished without compensation in July 1793?
feudal dues
Which branch of government were Louis XVI's powers restricted to under the Constitution of 1791?
executive
Under the constitutions of 1791 and 1795, what was 'sacred and inviolable'?
property
Under which revolutionary decree was the price of wheat and flour fixed in the hope of making bread more affordable?
Law of the Maximum
Time was reorganised and was based on which system?
metric
Name the revolutionary principle that was banned in 1795.
fraternity
On 20 June 1791, Louis XVI escaped the Tuileries palace and was captured near the Austrian frontier in which town?
Varennes
Which faction opposed the execution of Louis XVI and were accused of being traitors?
Girondins
Who was tried in Marseille (April 1794) under Article 10 of the Law of Suspects under the charge of 'indifference' on the grounds that 'He possesses a very moderate patriotism'?
Jean Sellon
What was suspended 'until the peace' under the Decree on Revolutionary Government in October 1793
Constitution of 1793
Which law was passed by the National Convention on 4 December 1793 increased the authority of the Committee of Public Safety, bringing the Reign of Terror under more centralised control?
Law of 14 Frimaire
How many lives were lost during the civil war in the Vendee?
400,000
Who said, as they made their way to the guillotine, 'Oh Liberty, how many crimes are committed in thy name'?
Madame Roland
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