AP Euro French Revolution
Louis XVI
"Let all three estates list their grievances to me"
Robespierre
"Lives must be sacrificed for liberty"
nationalism
A feeling of pride in and intense devotion to, one's country
Clemens von Metternich
Austrian prince who wanted to restore the status quo of 1792 at the Congress of Vienna "Monarchy is the only way to save Europe from the ravages of nationalism"
Napoleon
French general who became emperor of the French in the early 1800s "I love power as a musician loves his violin"
Olympe de Gouges
French journalist who demanded equal rights for women. "Woman's rights are the same as those of man"
What statement describes Napoleon's relation to the French Revolution?
He was overthrown by the Revolution.
What policy of Napoleon was most often use to cast him in a negative role by his opponents?
His use of nepotism in government
How did the Napoleonic Code reflect Enlightenment principles?
It guaranteed the equality of all citizens before the law.
What best describes the role of "What is the Third Estate" in the French Revolution?
It was a catalyst that helped get the people of France ready to revolt against their king.
Maximilien Robespierre
Jacobin revolutionary who led the Reign of Terror
Jacques Louis David
Leading painter during the French Revolution
Whose ideas and aims dominated the Congress of Vienna and after whom the age of reaction, from the fall of Napoleon to the Revolutions if 1848, is named?
Metternich
Who did not help control governmental power in France during the Reign of Terror?
Napoleon Bonaparte
What happened first? Napoleon is defeated or Congress of Vienna meets
Napoleon is defeated
What area did Napoleon annex to France?
Netherlands
"Men are born and remain free and in equal rights." What document is it from?
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen.
Sans-culottes
The working people of Paris who were characterized by their long working pants and support for radical politics.
France's economy was mainly supported by
Third Estate
The decline and fall of Napoleon is the best explained by
a combination of flawed policies and growing resistance to French rule
blockade
a military tactic through which ports are shut off to keep people or supplies from moving in or out
In the French Revolution to 1795, Napoleon played
a minor role in support of the Revolution
emigre
a person who fled revolutionary France to live in another country
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen stated that
all men were born free and equal in rights
The Concert of Europe
authorized Austria to use military force to put down Italian nationalist movements
plebiscite
ballot in which voters say yes or no to an issue
Napoleon helped make the French Revolution an international movement in the areas he conquered
by abolishing feudalism and manorialism
How did the French respond to threats to the Revolution?
by becoming more radical
Napoleons failure to conquer Russia was due chiefly to
climate and size of Russia
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy
curbed the power of the clergy but alienated many Catholics
Napoleon's purpose in instituting the Continental System was to
defeat England through economic war
The Great Fear of the summer of 1789
demonstrated the desperation of an overtaxed peasantry
Saying that a man has "met his Waterloo" means that he has
experienced a crushing defeat
True or False Delegates to the Congress of Vienna were concerned with nationalist feelings when they redrew the map of France.
false
True or False The revolution failed to end the legal inequalities between the classes
false
The significance of the storming of the Bastille was that
it demonstrated that the crowd was tired of monarchy
The Directory turned to the military because
it was threatened by both Jacobin and Royalist opposition
One reason why the Fench were willing to accept the leadership of Napoleon was his
military ability
Delegates at the Congress of Vienna supported
nationalism
In the early 1800s, who were the most likely to support conservatism?
nobles
During the Napoleonic Era, Britain carried out its balance of power by
opposing any nation that threatened to dominate Europe
The Congress of Vienna changed the map of Europe by
organizing the German Confederation.
What event posed a threat to the Metternich system?
outbreak of the Greek war of independence
The Concordat of 1801
reconciled France with the Roman Church
The aim of the delegates at the Congress of Vienna was to
restore the balance of power in Europe
Leaders at the Congress of Vienna wanted to
restore the traditional political and social order of Europe
An example of Metternich's principle of legitimacy was
restoring Louis XVIII to the throne
deficit spending
spending more money than is taken in
The main reason rulers of other countries fought Napoleon was that he was
spreading revolutionary ideas
Napoleon's Continental System was mainly an effort to
strike at Britain's trade
The Congress of Vienna hoped to restore the European balance of power after the Wars of the Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars by
surrounding France with strong states
In October 1805 at the Battle of Trafalgar,
the British navy defeated the combined French and Spanish fleets
What alienatedthe most French Catholic clerics and believers?
the Civil Constitution of Clergy
Which group saw the highest percentage of its members executed during the Reign of Terror?
the Clergy
What did not precipitated the radical turn of the revolution?
the execution of the King
The main obstacle to solving France's financial problems was
the fact that both the nobility and clergy were exempt from most taxes
The immediate casue of the outbreak of the Revolution in 1789 was
the government's financial crisis
The immediate cause of the outbreak of revolution in 1789 was
the governments financial crisis
The reform of the French Revolution that was most consistent from the revolution onward was
the hereditary privileges of the nobility were abolished
Many historians divide the French Revolution into three distinct stages:
the moderate, the radical and the reactionary stages
In Thermidor
the modern portion of the propertied bourgeoisie reasserted its power
Suffrage
the right to vote
What was not a principle upheld by the Napoleonic Code?
the safeguarding of the traditional privileges and prerogatives of the nobility
The first act of the revolution was the resolve of the Third Estate to write a constitution. It is of
the swearing of the Tennis court oath
The bourgeoisie belonged to which group?
the third estate
The assertion made by Sieyes- that the third estate is everything- is best supported by the fact that
the third estate included over 95 percent of the French population
bourgeoisie
the wealthiest members of the third estate
What is true about France's social structure?
there was inequality among the three estates
French nobles resisted Necker's financial reforms because
they wanted to pay no taxes
What was the chief goal of the Congress of Vienna?
to create lasting peace
Why did the Congress of Vienna redraw the boundaries of some European countries?
to encircle France with strong countries
abdicate
to give up power
The aims of the great powers represented at the Congress of Vienna were
to restore the traditional order and to create a new balance of power
True or False In the 1800s, conservation was a philosophy supported by the status quo.
true
Nineteenth century liberals supported all of the following except
universal suffrage
The Reign of Terror
was necessary, according to, Robespierre, to establish a democratic republic
Who did not participate in the Congress of Vienna?
Charles X
What happened first? Congress of Vienna meets or Quadruple Alliance formed
Congress of Vienna meets
