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Toussaint decided to rejoin the French side in the war in Saint-Domingue when
the French parliament freed the slaves on Saint-Domingue and made all black men citizens of France
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the French parliament declared that all slaves who fought for France would be granted their freedom
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it became clear that France would be defeated without the help of black commanders and soldiers
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he realized that France was more likely to free the slaves than Spain or Britain
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The Tennis Court Oath marked the
end of the French monarchy
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beginning of the Haitian slave revolt
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end of the Estates General
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start of the French Revolution
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Catherine the Great’s reaction to the French Revolution was to
enact a series of reforms to head off any revolutionary activity in Russia
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dissociate herself from Enlightenment thinkers and exile any Russians seen as supportive of revolutionary principles
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relegate anyone seen as a troublemaker to serfdom
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crack down on the activities of the rebel leader Emelian Pugachev
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Louis XIV’s successors’ attempts to impose taxes on the French elite were opposed even by those who were not exempt from taxation because the people
worried that increased revenue would permit the king to involve the country in yet another war
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felt the monarchy was extravagant and corrupt, wasting the money it collected
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were planning revolution
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did not trust the government to fairly levy taxes
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The first outbreak of violence in the French Revolution was prompted by
the king’s dismissal of finance minister Jacques Necker
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the Third Estate’s decision to walk out of the Estates General
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the king’s acceptance of the National Assembly
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the huge increase in the cost of bread after the king eliminated price controls
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Saint-Domingue was the most productive colony in the world in the 1780s due to the cultivation of a variety of lucrative crops, including sugar cane, tobacco, cotton, and
corn
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coffee
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tea
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wheat
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In 1788, the Parlement of Paris agreed to approve a loan to service the country’s debt only if the king
revived the Estates General, a national representative body
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levied taxes upon the nobility
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restored the local parlements he had disbanded the decade before
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ended the practices of venal offices and tax collection through tax farmers
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The Civil Constitution of the Clergy, passed in 1790, declared that
all Catholic Church property would henceforth belong to the French government
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France would henceforth follow a new calendar based on political events in France
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the Church would be governed by the state, with priests as salaried employees
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the Cult of the Supreme Being was henceforth the official religion of France
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France’s loss of the colony of Saint-Domingue led to
Napoleon’s decision to sell the Louisiana Territory
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Napoleon’s exile to Elba
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renewed violence in France, as prices for sugar skyrockets
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Napoleon’s decision to grant citizenship to the slaves of Martinique and Guadeloupe
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The first, second, and third estate were, respectively,
commoners, nobility, and clergy
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clergy, nobility, and commoners
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nobility, merchants, and commoners
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merchants, the press, and clergy
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The policy of “terror”—the ruthless suppression of all enemies and the use of extreme measures to preserve the revolution—was enacted by
Robespierre
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the sans-culottes
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the Girondins
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Lafayette
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Napoleon replaced the revolutionary ideals of “liberty, equality, and fraternity” with
obedience, hierarchy, and ownership
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hierarchy, nobility, and property
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structure, order, and stability
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order, hierarchy, and property
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In the 1780s, the French population was
25% nobility, 60% commoners
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10% nobility, 70% commoners
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5% nobility, 80% commoners
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1% nobility, 90% commoners
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The groups who pressured the ruling Committee of Public Safety for more and less terror, respectively, were
the Jacobins and the Hébertists
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the Indulgents and the Girondins
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the Vendée and the Thermidorians
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the Hébertists and the Indulgents
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Napoleon’s trade embargo with Britain was known as the
European system
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colonial system
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continental system
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Napoleonic system
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The first Spanish colony to win its independence was
Bolivia
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Colombia
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Venezuela
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Ecuador
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