AP EURO Unit 5 Study Guide
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1. On July 4, 1776, the delegates of the Second Continental Congress approved the ______________________________.
2. The colonists won their war for independence due to __________ and __________ aid from ____________________.
3. How was General Cornwallis and his army at Yorktown in 1781, defeated leading to British abandonment of the
Revolutionary War?
4. Describe the Constitution of the United States of 1789.
5. How did the American Revolution affect Europeans?
6. How were “enlightened” American political and moral ideas taken back to Europe?
7. Who made up the First Estate?
8. What was the most immediate cause of the French Revolution?
9. Describe the economy of France in the 18th century.
10. By convening the Estates General in 1789, the government was basically admitting that the consent of the
______________ was needed to raise ________________.
11. Who made up the Third Estate?
12. Compare the American and French Revolutions.
13. How similar were the French nobility and bourgeoisie?
14. How did the number of representatives change when the government called the Estates-General?
15. In 1789, the Estates-General was divided over what voting question?
16. What did Abbe Sieyes support with his pamphlet “What is the Third Estate?”
17. How bad was France’s economic situation in 1788?
18. What happened to the number of poor in France just prior to the Revolution?
19. In the summer of 1789, when the "revolution of the lawyers" appeared doomed by imminent royal use of armed force,
the Revolution as a whole was saved by ___________________________________________.
20. What were the cahiers de doleances?
21. What were the accomplishments of the National Assembly?
22. What came out of the controversy over voting by order versus voting by head in the Estates-General?
23. What was the slogan of the French Revolution?
24. The King's fortress in Paris, which a mob stormed on July 14, 1789, touching off a wave of riots throughout France,
was ______________________________________________.
25. Describe the Declaration of the Rights of Man.
26. For what is Olympe de Gouges known?
27. How did the National Assembly affect the Catholic Church?
28. In the French Constitution of 1791, who had the right to vote?
29. What group emerged as the most important radical element in French politics, at the beginning of the French
Revolution?
30. In 1792, the Legislative Assembly declared war on ______________.
31. Who were the Mountain and the Girondins?
32. What did the National Convention do in September of 1792?
33. The head of the Committee of Public Safety who presided over the terror in France in 1793 and 1794 was _________.
34. Describe the army of the French Republic in 1790s.
35. Who were the victims of the Reign of Terror?
36. What did the National Convention do in regards to religion?
37. Describe the French Revolutionary Republican calendar.
38. What happened in Haiti at this time?
39. What was the most important accomplishment of the National Convention?
40. During the Thermidorean Reaction, who gave the Directory support?
41. Describe Napoleon’s rise to power. (use text not just video information, text is more specific)
42. Why was it so fast?
43. In what ways was Napoleon “a child of the revolution”?
44-45. Discuss Napoleon’s domestic policies (text and video) including Code of Napoleon, Concordat and bureaucracy.
46. Who were some of Napoleon’s critics?
47. What factors led to Napoleon’s defeat?
48. What was the Continental System?
49. The German philosopher who initially welcomed the French Revolution, turned against it, becoming instead an
advocate of a German national spirit was _____________________________________.
50. Napoleon met his final defeat at the Battle of ________________.