The French Revolution and Napoleon

To restore good relations between France and the Roman Catholic Church, Napoleon and the pope signed...

A concordat

Why do you think Napoleon became as popular as he did?

Due to his military history

This refers to the nobles who fled France but still hoped to restore the monarchy.

Emigres

In 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte made himself the _____ of France.

Emperor

A financial crisis, brought on in part by excessive spending and huge gambling losses by ___, resulted in forcing ___ to call the ___ into session for the first time in 175 years.

Estates- General; Louis XVI; Marie Antoinette

The noblemen of the ___ and the clergy of the ___ were forced by the king to join the National Assembly

First Estate; Second Estate

The delegates of the ___, who represented 98 percent of the French population, felt they should have as much say in the decision-making process as the ___ and the ___ combined.

First Estate; Second Estate; Third Estate

Just before being beheaded, this person suggested that his severed head would be "well worth seeing."

Georges Danton

This was invented to further humane goals, though often used in contradiction to such goals.

Guillotine

At first, in an attempt to appear to be a constitutionally chosen leader, Napoleon...

Held vote of the people or "plebiscite"

This radical revolutionary was fatally stabbed by another revolutionary.

Jean-Paul Marat

This describes the most radical members of the Legislative Assembly.

Left-wing

This is the name of the government body that replaced the National Assembly.

Legislative Assembly

Expecting trouble, ___ called up mercenary troops. This action caused a rebellion that fueled a widespread emotional reaction called the ___.

Louis XVI; Great Fear

This person claimed it was possible to build a "republic of virtue" by means of what came to be known as the Reign of Terror.

Maximilien Robespierre

Out of fear for their own safety, members of this group finally put an end to the Reign of Terror.

National Convention

The social and political system in use in France in the 1770s, called the ___, had been in place since the Middle Ages.

Old Regime

Although not a member of the Third Estate, ___ was a spokesman for this group who recommended that its delegates should name themselves the ___ and pass laws and make reforms in the name of the French people.

Old Regime; National Assembly

This person wrote a strong response to "A Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen" because it did not give the same rights to women that it gave to men.

Olympe de Gouges

Why do you think the Reign of Terror occurred and went on as long as it did?

Once the Reign of Terror had started and peoples fear grew, it became impossible to control. At the of the reign of terror, Robespierre men had to turn on him and construct a plan in secret to get him out of power, which was hard and unsafe to do because getting caught would mean death.

As part of his reform program, Napoleon set up...

Public Schools

This describes the most conservative members of the Legislative Assembly.

Right-wing

This was a radical group, named for the style of breeches its members wore.

Sans-culottes

A coup d'état describes...

Sudden forceful seizure of government control

When Third Estate delegates were forced to find a new meeting place, they made a pledge, called the ___, to continue their meeting until they had drawn up a new constitution.

Tennis Court Oath

What event or events signified the end of absolute monarchy and the beginning of representative government? Explain your answer.

The end of the absolute Monarchy

In Egypt and later in the Battle of Saint Domingue, Napoleon suffered rare military defeats at the hands of the same man, _____.

Trafalgar