HIST 101 Final, Fall 2005

HISTORY 101 SECTION FIOUR Final Examination (Two Hours) February 2, 2006. Instructions: Answer any two (2) of the following questions. Your answers ought to be in the form of well-organized, legible (= readable), coherent (= logical, consistent) and compact essays. 1) Describe and evaluate the significance of the major reforms introduced by Bonaparte in France in the following spheres: a) administration and the law, b) public finance and taxation, c) church-state relations. 2) What were the causes for the financial crisis facing Pre-Revolutionary French governments and how did that crisis ultimately lead to the 1789 Revolution? 3) Explain what Palmer meant by his claim that the French Revolution was e 4) What were the major principles or measures announced on the Night of August 4, and on August 26, 1789 (Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen) and how did they contribute to the transformation of the character of French society? 5) Describe sweeping internal reforms and reorganizations in all the territories of his Grand Empire and explain why, in effect, they were revolutionary in character. 6) Analyze the problems and difficulties which faced the Convention in the spring of 1793. What program, under the inspiration of Robespierre, did it follow to get out of its difficulties and with what results? 7) What, in your opinion, were the basic political and constitutional differences between the Estates General that convened at Versailles in May 1789 and the National Assembly that came into being on June 17 of the same year?