Answer the Following Questions

question 4

Multiple Choice

Answer the following questions:
-sans-culottes

• A)A blockade imposed by Napoleon to halt all trade between continental Europe and Britain, thereby weakening the British economy and military.
• B)A legislative body in prerevolutionary France made up of representatives of each of the three classes, or estates; it was called into session in 1789 for the first time since 1614.
• C)The first French revolutionary legislature, made up primarily of representatives of the third estate and a few from the nobility and clergy, in session from 1789 to 1791.
• D)The fear of noble reprisals against peasant uprisings that seized the French countryside and led to further revolt.
• E)A political club in revolutionary France whose members were well-educated radical republicans.
• F)The period from 1793 to 1794 during which Robespierre's Committee of Public Safety tried and executed thousands suspected of treason and a new revolutionary culture was imposed.
• G)From 1792 to 1795, the second phase of the French Revolution, during which the fall of the French monarchy introduced a rapid radicalization of politics.
• 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 aristocracy and middle class; the word came to refer to the militant radicals of the city.
• J)A reaction to the violence of the Reign of Terror in 1794, resulting in the execution of Robespierre and the loosening of economic controls.
• K)The empire over which Napoleon and his allies ruled, encompassing virtually all of Europe except Great Britain and Russia.
• L)French civil code 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, as well as the restriction of rights accorded to women by previous revolutionary laws.
• M)The three legal categories, or orders, of France's inhabitants: the clergy, the nobility, and everyone else.
• N)Led by Robespierre, the French National Convention's radical faction, which seized legislative power in 1793.

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