All Categories
History of Europe
Explore questions in the History of Europe category that you can ask Sparky!
- The National Assembly responded to the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen by Olympe de Gouges by
- Prior to the revolution in France, the peasants constituted between 75 and 80 percent of the population and owned about 35 to 40 percent of the land.
- During the era of the Directory, the economic regulations and controls adopted by the Committee of Public Safety were dropped in favor of more laissez-faire policies
- Female political activist Olympe de Gouges was the author of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
- Napoleon's greatest victory was over the Russians and the Austrians in 1805 at the Battle of Trafalgar
- The head of the Committee of Public Safety who presided over the terror in France in 1793 and 1794 was
- The French revolutionary slogan neatly evoking the ideals of the rebellion was
- The German philosopher who initially welcomed the French Revolution but turned against it, becoming instead an advocate of a German national spirit was
- The Parlement of Paris sought to resolve the controversy over voting in the Estates-General by calling for the method used in 1614, which involved
- The King's fortress in Paris, which a mob stormed on July 14, 1789, touching off a wave of riots throughout France, was
- Because France became "a nation in arms," the French revolutionary armies were significant in the development of modern nationalism.
- The Third Estate was composed of all of the following EXCEPT
- Which of the following is NOT true of the French revolutionary republican calendar?
- In the Concordat of 1801, Napoleon made peace with
- By spring 1791 how many Jacobin clubs were affiliated with the Parisian Jacobin club?
- Just prior to the Revolution in France, the number of the poor in France
- In France, the First Estate was composed of
- With regard to matters of religion, the National Convention adopted measures
- Sieyes wrote "What is the Third Estate?" to support the political demands of the
- During the 1760s British policy makers sought to raise revenues from the American colonies for the purpose of