How did ordinary people shape the nature and direction of the French Revolution?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
a. Ordinary people became involved in politics for the first time, making the revolution a popular revolution.
b. The sans-culottes played an active role in the revolution and pushed the revolution in a more radical direction, as seen in journées révolutionnaires.
c. The Fall of the Bastille symbolized the popular will.
d. The Great Fear reflects the role of the peasantry.
e. In response to the Great Fear, the National Assembly voted to abolish the feudal rights of the nobility.
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a. artists became wealthy for their work, something that had never happened before. b. art became too popular and lost its individual quality. c. the adoption of foreign influences by too many artists alienated large segments of the population. d. art was seduced by consumerism and commercialism and individual tastes began to splinter between different art forms.
Britain decided to end its war against the Americans after a combined American and French force defeated General Cornwallis at
A. Cowpens. B. Newburgh. C. Saratoga. D. Yorktown. E. Boston.F
After President McKinley asked Congress for intervention in Cuba, Congress voted for war against Spain. All of the following were factors in the decision except which one?
a. The buildup of public and political pressure in America for war. b. Spain's refusal to discuss terms for an armistice. c. The economic costs of the unrest. d. Spain's mistreatment of the Cuban people in concentration camps.
Like merchants in the Islamic world, European merchants relied on
a. family and ethnic networks. b. religious persecution. c. nobility to fund all excursions. d. joint-stock companies. e. luck.