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Multiple Choice

Use the following to answer questions :
-Treaty of Paris

• A)The 1763 diplomatic arrangement that ended the Seven Years' War, according vast French territories in North America and India to Britain and Louisiana to Spain.
• B)The 1776 document in which the American colonies formally stated they were not under the rule of Great Britain and recast traditional English rights as universal human rights.
• C)Opponents of the American Constitution who felt it diminished individual rights and accorded too much power to the federal government at the expense of the states.
• D)Traditional representative body of the three estates of France that met in 1789 in response to imminent state bankruptcy.
• E)French representative body formed in 1789 by the delegates of the third estate and some members of the clergy, the second estate.
• F)A political group during the French Revolution to which many of the deputies of the Legislative Assembly belonged.
• G)Led by Robespierre, the French National Convention's radical faction, which led the Convention in 1793.
• H)A moderate group that fought for control of the French National Convention in 1793.
• I)The laboring poor of Paris, so called because the men wore trousers instead of the knee breeches of the wealthy; the term came to refer to the militant radicals of the city.
• J)The period from 1793 to 1794, during which Robespierre's Committee of Public Safety tried and executed thousands suspected of political crimes and a new revolutionary culture was imposed.
• K)A response in 1794 to the violence of the Reign of Terror, resulting in the execution of Robespierre and the loosening of economic controls.
• L)French civil regulations promulgated in 1804 that reasserted the 1789 principles of the equality of all male citizens before the law and the absolute security of wealth and private property.
• M)The area over which Napoleon and his allies ruled, encompassing virtually all of Europe except Great Britain.
• N)A blockade imposed by Napoleon in which no ship coming from Britain or its colonies was permitted to dock at any port controlled by the French.
• O)People of European descent born in the Americas.
• P)A term for natives of Spain and Portugal.

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