HSTEU 302
FINAL EXAM
REVIEW
FINAL EXAM: MONDAY MARCH 13 10:30
am in our regular classroom
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a stamped, self-addressed envelope to final and turn it
in with your exam. Otherwise, graded exams will be available next quarter
from Professor O'Neil.
FORMAT: multiple choice; identifications; two essays
Time limits will be suggested for each section; exam will be two hours long.
MATERIAL TO BE COVERED: Exam will cover lectures and readings since Louis
XIV
in political history. Section on intellectual history will focus on the
Enlightenment philosophes,
ending with Rousseau and French Revolution. Use lecture outlines, P&C
text and Censer and Hunt
volume as guide for review.
Identifications will be selected from central figures, events, and topics
covered in both
lectures and readings. You will be asked to "identify and explain
the significance of" a given
term, person, event. Be sure to include
specific information, including dates where relevant,
but also to indicate the general
significance of the concept, event or
person: why is this important? (see list below)
Essays: In general, a good essay includes specific information
within the framework of a
general answer to the question posed. Take the time to write a brief
outline before you begin
writing, and make an effort to structure your answer as well as possible.
Include specifics that are
relevant to the overall point. Essay topics will fall into the following
general categories:
l. 18th Century France: reigns
of Louis XV, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
Reform efforts following the death of Louis XIV (see lecture outlines)
2. The Enlightenment:
intellectual history
Sources: Scientific Revolution:
model of understanding laws of nature
17th
C English constitutionalism & political theory (espec.
Locke)
Central themes: negative
critique of custom, tradition, religion
positive advocacy of reason, ideas of rights of man, natural law,
governmental& judicial reform (e.g. opposition to
torture, death penalty)
education, science, technology, practical knowledge,
toleration
political agenda: enlightened absolutism
economic program of physiocrats: free trade (laissez
faire, laissez passez)
opposed to mercantilism, government regulation tariffs;
Mainstream Enlightenment.: Voltaire,
Montesquieu, philosophes, Encyclopédie,
Diderot
Problem of God, deism, optimism: Leibniz, Voltaire, Alexander Pope. Moral issues:
de Sade, Kant
Rousseau and Enlightenment: what does he share vs what he rejects of Enlightenment
ideas?
Relationship of French Revolution to
Enlightenment:
how does Revolution reflect major Enlightenment
themes?
(see Declaration of Rights of Man; documents on
Jews, Negoes, women)
Edmund Burke: conservative rejection of Enlightenment & French Revolution;
appeal to tradition
3. The French Revolution: be familiar with its causes, central issues, major phases,
turning points, critical events, personalities, major documents, and be able to
discuss the
roles of different social groups at
different points before and during the Revolution:
nobility (robe and sword), bourgeoisie, Parisian working class, peasantry,
clergy
For a political overview, follow the
chart on reverse side – read it from the right hand margin, moving chronologically,
starting from 1788 (upper right) to left (Paris risings). We will discuss this
outline in class.)
Political Chronology of the French Revolution:
Popular
Jacobinism
Constitutional Constitutional
Absolutism
Revolution (bourgeois
republicanism monarchy
(Parisian ←
republicanism)
1792 ←
1789-92
← 1788 (Monarchy)
risings) → 1793 –
1794 →
1795
1815 ←
1799 (Napoleon)
LEFT
RIGHT
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HSTEU 302 FINAL IDS
Louis XIV the
Fronde Versailles Bossuet
Parlement of Paris Estates General Tax farmers
noblesse de robe
noblesse de l'épée intendants
bourgeoisie
Louis XV Regency
of Duke of Orleans
John Law Louisiana Bubble
(or Mississippi Bubble)
Jean Calas Affair Maupeou
parlements
Louis XVI Marie
Antoinette Affair of
Diamond Necklace
Economic Ministers: Necker, Calonne,
Brienne –what kinds
of reforms were proposed?
why did they fail ?
Austria: Maria Theresa War of the Austrian Succession
Prussia:
Frederick II
Russia: Peter the Great Catherine the Great
French taxation system: taille corvée capitation dixième vingtième
Intellectuals and writings: be
familiar with one or two titles of each writer
Pierre Bayle
Treatise of the Three Impostors
Montesquieu Immanuel
Kant
Leibniz Voltaire
Encyclopedia Denis Diderot
Rousseau: Social Contract Discourse
on Origins of Inequality
the Salons Physiocrats: Turgot
Olympe de Gouges Edmund Burke
Enlightenment (be able to define & discuss) Deism
Jacques-Louis David (painter)
French Revolution
Estates General Cahiers
de doléances
Abbé Sieyès Third
Estate
Oath of Tennis Court Declaration
of Rights of Man and Citizen
October Days 1789 Le Chapelier Law
Civil Constitution of Clergy Constitution of 1791
“Self-denying ordinance” Sans-culottes
Jacobins Girondins
La Marseillaise September
Massacres, 1792
National Convention The Vendée
The Terror Committee of
Public Safety
Robespierre Danton
coup d’état of Thermidor the Directory coup d’état of Fructidor
Napoleon Bonaparte
Consulate
Napoleonic Code
Concordat
with Vatican
Congress of Vienna Metternich