The French Revolution
a. was precipitated by a noble-bourgeois dispute over the best way to deal with the large budgetary surpluses of 1788 and 1789.
b. actually had no real impact on either the economic or political status of peasants.
c. created no major gains, even temporarily, for women in such areas as divorce and inheritance.
d. created a "nation in arms" and an army of 650,000.
e. failed in its attempt to restore divine right monarchy to France.
d
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A) They would be shortly abandoned and replaced by dictates of emperors. B) They would forever limit the power of the plebeian class and prevent their role in government in Rome. C) They would establish a system of government for which even non-citizens would have limited powers. D) They would establish rights for all citizens regardless of class and a government derived from all the citizen classes that would be the foundation of Roman Law. E) They would establish eternal power of the patricians over all other members of Roman society.
After the end of World War II, the United States once again retreated into its traditional isolationist foreign policy
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Secretary of State Adams favored a U.S. approach to foreign affairs that __________.
a. continued the neutrality policy suggested by George Washington b. played one European power against another c. included a close alignment with Great Britain d. discouraged European intervention in the Americas
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A) Orthodox priests B) peasants and landowners C) slave laborers D) former aristocrats E) church officials