Unit 5: Conflict, Crisis, and Reaction in the Late 18th Century
Euro History · Unit 5 · Paper 1

Conflict, Crisis, and Reaction in the Late 18th Century unit test

A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.

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Each paper is built from this unit’s 33 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 5, Paper 1” and every student sits the identical test. Multiple choice is marked objectively; the written sections you mark yourself against the model answer and rubric.
Suggested time 30 min 27 points0/17 attempted
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Congress of Vienna

2

Thermidorian Reaction and the Directory

3

Napoleonic Code

4

Olympe de Gouges

5

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

6

Conservatism after 1815

7

Estates of the realm

8

Robespierre

9

Estates-General

10

Assembly of Notables (1787)

11

Active vs passive citizens

12

Haitian Revolution

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Sans-culottes

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Hundred Days and Waterloo (1815)

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Jacobins and Girondins

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Toussaint Louverture

3 pts

Free response

3 pts

SHORT-ANSWER QUESTION. Read the description of the source. Source — Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790. Burke, a Whig member of the British Parliament who had supported the American colonists and the impeachment of Warren Hastings, writes a year after the fall of the Bastille and before the Terror. He argues that a society is a partnership among the living, the dead, and those yet to be born, that its institutions embody accumulated practical wisdom that no generation can reconstruct from abstract principle, and that the French attempt to rebuild government from a theory of natural rights will destroy the restraints that make liberty possible and end in military despotism.

A. Briefly describe one argument Burke makes against the French revolutionaries.

B. Briefly explain one development in France between 1789 and 1799 that critics used to support arguments like Burke’s.

C. Briefly explain one way the French Revolution changed European politics after 1799.