History of Europe Questions
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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)