Extra Credit Question - How did the development of democratic republican government in France from the beginning of the French Revolution to the Third Republic demonstrate the ideas of Edmund Burke about the importance of developing institutions? (this question is worth up to 10 extra credit points) - Due Tuesday October 14th.
Information about the test - The test will have the same format as the previous test. Use the questions below to help study for the test. Remember, the test is about assessing how well you can think using the big ideas of the unit and the historical information in the unit. The best way to study for the test is to use these questions to practice the process of thinking needed to fully answer the questions. That means making a diagram based on the "big ideas" you find in reading the question and then organizing historical facts to match the "big ideas".
Practice Questions:
1. How
did the French Revolutionaries use the ideas of the Enlightenment in the
Revolution?
2. How
did Robespierre and the Jacobins use the Reign of Terror as an opportunity to
create their idealized version of France?
3. How was Napoleon similar to Oliver Cromwell?
4. How
did the Congress of Vienna try to prevent future events like the French
Revolution and Napoleonic Wars?
5. Which
event should be considered the start of the French Revolution: the Tennis Court
Oath or the Storming of the Bastille?
6. How
was Louis XVI’s mishandling of the start of the French Revolution similar to
Charles I of England’s mishandling of the English Civil War?
7. How
was Napoleon the cause of his own downfall?
8. How
was the choice of both Louis Phillipe and Napoleon III to be leaders of France a compromise between
tradition and change within France?
9. Why
would Metternich consider it was good to suppress the ideas of nationalism and
democracy following the defeat of Napoleon?
10. How
were the French Revolution and the Revolts of 1848 in France both examples of
struggle between the middle class and the poor?
13. How
is the history of France during the nineteenth century one of continuing
revolutionary conflict between monarchy and democracy?
