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1. Unit Jeopardy!

3. French Revolution 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500 FINAL

4. The colonists won their war for independence due to Foundations 100 Generous military and financial aid from various European states, especially France

5. The Constitution of the United States of 1789 Foundations 200 Created a republic in which the branches of government provided checks on one another

6. The American Revolution affected Europeans by Foundations 300 Proving that the ideas of the Enlightenment could be realized politically

7. A key conduit of “enlightened” American political and moral ideas back to Europe was formed by Foundations 400 The hundreds French army and navy soldiers returning from the American Revolutionary War

8. The defeat of General Cornwallis and his army at Yorktown in 1781, leading to British abandonment of the Revolutionary War, was achieved by Foundations 500 A combined American and French army supported by a heavily armed French fleet

9. French society on the eve of their revolution Start of the Revolution 100 Was still largely dominated by the nobility and clergy

10. The most immediate cause of the French Revolution was Start of the Revolution 200 The government’s failure to resolve its debts and other economic problems

11. By the eighteenth century, the French bourgeoisie and nobility were Start of the Revolution 300 Increasingly less distinguishable from each other

12. In 1789, the Estates-General was Start of the Revolution 400 Divided over the issue of voting by “orders” or by “head.”

13. As one measure of the French crown’s terrible financial predicament, by 1788 the interest payments on the state debt alone amounted to Start of the Revolution 500 One-half of all government spending

14. The French revolutionary slogan neatly evoking the ideals of the rebellion was Revolution 100 “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity!”

15. The controversy over voting by order versus voting by head in the Estates-General saw Revolution 200 The Third Estate respond by forming a “National Assembly.”

16. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen Revolution 300 Owed much to the ideas of the American Declaration of Independence

17. In regard to the Catholic Church, the National Assembly Revolution 400 Passed legislation that secularized church offices and clergymen

18. What type of government was established in France by 1791? Revolution 500 Constitutional monarchy

19. The Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror Reign of Terror 100 Was headed by Maximilien Robespierre

20. The French Republic’s army in the 1790s Reign of Terror 200 Fueled modern nationalism and was raised through mobilization of the population

21. In regard to religion, the National Convention Reign of Terror 300 Took measures to dechristianize the republic

22. During the Reign of Terror, the majority of the victims were Reign of Terror 400 Peasant and laboring classes

23. In the Reign of Terror’s “preservation” of the revolution from its internal enemies Reign of Terror 500 Rebellious cities were brutally defeated by the Revolutionary Armies

24. The government of the Directory in the period of the Thermidorean Reaction Napoleon 100 Increasingly had to rely on military support for its survival

25. Which of the following statements best applies to Napoleon? Napoleon 200 He was both a child of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution

26. Which of the following statements best applies to Napoleon’s domestic policies? Napoleon 300 His Civil Code reaffirmed the ideals of the Revolution while creating a uniform legal system

27. The Concordat Napoleon 400 Reestablished the Catholic Church and gave the pope limited authority in France

28. Napoleon met his final defeat at the Battle of Napoleon 500 Waterloo

29. FINAL JEOPARDY! Question Answer