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- How did socio-economic changes and political crises impact state authority?
- Which social groups bore special burdens?
- Did the educated middle class (the bourgeoisie) and the nobility sometimes find themselves on the same side in supporting individual rights, individual freedoms, and representative government?
- What percentage of the population were the nobility?
- Did marriages between nobles and the bourgeoisie blur the traditional distinction between nobles and commoners?
- How did the British, French, and Spanish governments try to gain revenue to repay war loans?
- In general, did liberals believe that everyone should have equal economic opportunities?
- With regard to the right to vote and hold office, did male liberals generally believe in the political equality of men and women?
- Why type of government did Enlightenment thinking encourage freedom from?
- How did the textbook authors summarize what the eighteenth-century revolutions were about?
- Which two social groups had special privileges, including tax exemptions?
- Did racism and race-based discrimination become part of eighteenth-century European thoughts and practice in relation to Africans and native Americans?
- In general, did liberals believe in the equality of Europeans and Africans, including people of African descent?
- As a result of nobles investing in businesses and merchants being able to buy estates and noble titles, what happened to the traditional distinction between the nobles and the merchants?
- What was the overall impact of the expenses of imperial competition and warfare on European states?
- Napoleon was __________________ of taking control of the French governmentafter the coup d'état.
- After the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen was adopted, what did French playwright Olympe de Gouges do to fight the exclusion of women from politicalrights? (exclusion)
- Napoleon was __________________ of escaping from Elba.
- The word percent comes from per and the Latin word centum, or "hundred." How does this information help you define the word? (percent)
- The word liberal comes from the Latin word liberalis, meaning "suitable for a freeman." Is the word liberal appropriate as a description of the French revolutionaries? Why or why not? (liberal)