Which one of the following is not correct about liberalism
during the French Revolution?
Liberalism stood for the end of autocracy
Liberalism had stood for the end of clerical privileges
Liberalism stood for representative government
through parliament
Liberalism stood for universal suffrage
Answers
Answer:
liberalism never stood for universal sufferage
they want peace
so d option is incorrect as asked
Q. 1. What changes were introduced after the French Revolution in France?
Ans. A centralised administrative system was put in place and it formulated uniform
laws for all citizens within its territory. Internal custom duties and dues were abolished
and a uniform system of weights and measures was adopted.
Q. 2. What was the main aim of the revolutionaries behind the French revolution?
Ans. The revolutionaries declared that it was the mission and the destiny of the French
nation to liberate the people of Europe from despotism and to help other people of
Europe to become nations.
Q. 3. After becoming the Monarch what changes were introduced by Napoleon?
Ans. Napoleon had, no doubt, destroyed democracy in France, but in the administrative
field, he had incorporated revolutionary principles in order to make the whole system
more rational and efficient.
Q. 4. How did Napoleonic trade benefitted the businessmen and small scale
producers?
Ans. Businessmen and small scale producers of goods, in particular, began to realise
that uniform laws, standardised weights and measures and a common national currency
would facilitate the movement and exchange of goods and capital from one region to
another.
Q. 5. How did the local population react to the French Rule?
Ans. Initially, at many places like Holland and Switzerland, the French armies were
welcomed. But the initial enthusiasm soon turned to hostility and opposition as it
became clear that the new administrative arrangements did not go hand in hand with
the political freedom.
Q. 6. What does ‘Liberalism’ stand for, since the french revolution?
Ans. Since the French Revolution, liberalism has stood for the end of autocracy and
clerical privileges. A constitution and representative government through parliament.
Q. 7. How was liberalism adopted in revolutionary France?
Ans. Revolutionary France, marked the first political experiment in liberal democracy.
The right to vote and to get elected was granted exclusively to property owning men.
Men without property and all women were excluded from the political rights.
Q. 8. What kind of conservative regimes were set up in 1815?
Ans. Conservative regimes did not tolerate criticism and dissent and sought to curb
activities that questioned the legitimacy of autocratic government. Most of them
imposed censorship laws to control what was said in newspapers, books, plays and
songs and reflected the ideas of liberty and freedom. They were autocratic in nature.
Q. 9. What was Mazzini’s role in the unification of Italy?
Ans. Mazzini believed that god had intended nations to be the natural units of mankind.
So, Italy could not continue to be a patchwork of small states and kingdoms. It had to be
forged into a single unified republic within a under alliance of nation.
Q. 10. How did Polish use their language as a weapon of national resistance
against Russia?
Ans. Polish language was used for church gatherings and all religious instructions. As a
result, a large number of priests and bishops were put in jail or sent to Siberia by
Russian authorities as punishment for their refusal to preach in Russian. The use of
Polish came to be seen as a symbol of the struggle against Russian dominance.