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HIEU 242 Exam 1 - UTK Dr. Maccari-Clayton
Questions with Correct Answers for a Specific
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Ancien Regime
Ans: political structure in pre-revolution France that consisted of absolutism
and class orders/estates
Absolutism
Ans: system of government in which both legislative and executive power
was concentrated in the hands of a king who could act w/o any legal
limitations on his sovereignty (result of religious wars from earlier century)
Palace of Versailles
Ans: center of French political power from 1682
Louis XIV
Ans: "sun king" who moved nobles from provinces into Versailles
"nobility of the sword"
Ans: old line of nobility extending over generations within one family
"nobility of the robe"
Ans: Nobility who bought in, new money
first estate
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Ans: clergy
second estate
Ans: nobility
third estate
Ans: commoners
honor in ancien regime
Ans: distinguished birth and profession
moral basis of 18th century society
Ans: tradition (family ways) & authority (church)
privileges
Ans: private laws that legislated inequality, examples: death penalty and
taxes only applied to commoners
ancien regime dress code
Ans: only nobility and clergy were allowed to wear bright, expensive clothes
because social standing needed to be visible
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Ans: unequal rights people lived by under the ancien regime
Pretest - Stuvia US
HIEU 242 Exam 1 - UTK Dr. Maccari-Clayton
Questions with Correct Answers for a Specific
Exam Mail
Ancien Regime
Ans: political structure in pre-revolution France that consisted of absolutism
and class orders/estates
Absolutism
Ans: system of government in which both legislative and executive power
was concentrated in the hands of a king who could act w/o any legal
limitations on his sovereignty (result of religious wars from earlier century)
Palace of Versailles
Ans: center of French political power from 1682
Louis XIV
Ans: "sun king" who moved nobles from provinces into Versailles
"nobility of the sword"
Ans: old line of nobility extending over generations within one family
"nobility of the robe"
Ans: Nobility who bought in, new money
first estate
Pretest - Stuvia US
, 2
Ans: clergy
second estate
Ans: nobility
third estate
Ans: commoners
honor in ancien regime
Ans: distinguished birth and profession
moral basis of 18th century society
Ans: tradition (family ways) & authority (church)
privileges
Ans: private laws that legislated inequality, examples: death penalty and
taxes only applied to commoners
ancien regime dress code
Ans: only nobility and clergy were allowed to wear bright, expensive clothes
because social standing needed to be visible
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Ans: unequal rights people lived by under the ancien regime
Pretest - Stuvia US
