1. What were the principal origins of the French Revolution?
2. How and why did the Estates General become the National Assembly?
3. What was the importance of the revolutionary crowd in 1789?
4. How did the rest of Europe react to the French revolution?
5. Why did France go to war with the rest of Europe? What was the outcome of this war?
6. What were the major problems facing the Convention? What were the most important actions taken by the Convention?
7. Why did the French Revolution turn to the Reign of Terror? What were the policies of the government during the Reign of Terror? What was the scope of the Reign of Terror? Who were its victims?
8. What was the Thermidorean reaction? How did the Directory change the French republic?
9. How did Napoleon Bonaparte come to power in France?
10. Which of Napoleon’s domestic policies suggest that Napoleon was a despot? Which of his domestic policies suggest that he was an heir 0f the revolution?
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