ACCURACY IS GUARANTEED
HIEU 242 Exam 1 - UTK Dr. Maccari-Clayton
Questions with Detailed Verified Answers for
Accuracy
Ancien Regime
✓✓ political structure in pre-revolution France that consisted
of absolutism and class orders/estates
Absolutism
✓✓ 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
✓✓ center of French political power from 1682
Louis XIV
✓✓ "sun king" who moved nobles from provinces into
Versailles
"nobility of the sword"
✓✓ old line of nobility extending over generations within one
family
"nobility of the robe"
✓✓ Nobility who bought in, new money
, ACCURACY IS GUARANTEED
first estate
✓✓ clergy
second estate
✓✓ nobility
third estate
✓✓ commoners
honor in ancien regime
✓✓ distinguished birth and profession
moral basis of 18th century society
✓✓ tradition (family ways) & authority (church)
privileges
✓✓ private laws that legislated inequality, examples: death
penalty and taxes only applied to commoners
ancien regime dress code
✓✓ 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
HIEU 242 Exam 1 - UTK Dr. Maccari-Clayton
Questions with Detailed Verified Answers for
Accuracy
Ancien Regime
✓✓ political structure in pre-revolution France that consisted
of absolutism and class orders/estates
Absolutism
✓✓ 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
✓✓ center of French political power from 1682
Louis XIV
✓✓ "sun king" who moved nobles from provinces into
Versailles
"nobility of the sword"
✓✓ old line of nobility extending over generations within one
family
"nobility of the robe"
✓✓ Nobility who bought in, new money
, ACCURACY IS GUARANTEED
first estate
✓✓ clergy
second estate
✓✓ nobility
third estate
✓✓ commoners
honor in ancien regime
✓✓ distinguished birth and profession
moral basis of 18th century society
✓✓ tradition (family ways) & authority (church)
privileges
✓✓ private laws that legislated inequality, examples: death
penalty and taxes only applied to commoners
ancien regime dress code
✓✓ 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
