Lesson Quiz 3-1,3-2,3-3,and 3-4 :The French Revolution and Napoleon

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Taille

A land tax that hurt the Third Estate most

Coup d' état

A sudden overthrow of the government

What was Napoleon's Grand Empire?

An enlarged France, dependent and allied states

What led to the restoration of the French monarchy?

An unsuccessful military campaign in Russia

Napoleon's Civil Code treated women

As less equal than men

Which countries formed a coalition against France after the execution of Louis XVI?

Austria, Prussia, Spain, Portugal, Britain, and the Dutch Republic

Promotion within Napoleon's new bureaucracy was

Based on ability only, not rank or birth

Conservatism

Belief in tradition and social stability

Which factors were primarily responsible for the overthrow of the French government in 1799?

Corruption, political enemies of the Directory, and the rise of Napoleon

Many aristocrats and members of the bourgeoisie were attracted to _____, some of which criticized France's absolutist system.

Enlightenment philosophies

Which political philosophies emerged as a result of Europe's response to the French Revolution?

Liberalism and nationalism

National Assembly

Name taken by the Third Estate when promising to draft a new constitution

How can Napoleon's military endeavors best be described?

Napoleon set out to conquer Egypt, but ended up abandoning his troops there

The Consulate

Napoleon's new government after 1799

Civil code

Napoleon's unified system of law

First Estate

Social class made up of French clergy

Estates-General

The French Parliament

Bourgeoisie

The French middle class

Which political group with different ideas about how to carry out revolutionary goals was instrumental in condemning Louis XVI to death?

The Mountain

How did fears of foreign invasion contribute to the destruction of the Old Regime?

The National Assembly had the public support to strip clergy and nobles of their former privileges

Principle of Intervention

The belief that foreign powers have the right to replace a country's government

What was one of the leading causes of social unrest in eighteenth-century France?

The nobility still treated peasants in a manner similar to medieval serfdom

The Mountain

The political club that was most influential in passing the decree to condemn Louis XVI

Napoleon's empire collapsed because of

The resentment of the clergy and the plotting of accountants

The arrangements worked out at the Congress of Vienna

Would not allow the use of military force

Elector

a person qualified to vote in an election

Liberalism

belief that people should be free from government restraint

The Reign of Terror set up revolutionary courts to prosecute...

counterrevolutionaries and traitors

Allied States

countries defeated by Napoleon and forced to join his struggle against Britain

Directory

executive under the constitution of 1795

dependent states

kingdoms ruled by Napoleon's relatives

Duke of Wellington

led British and Prussian armies' defeat of Napoleon

One economic cause of the French Revolution was an increase in prices, which

left people unable to purchase essential goods, such as food

Reign of Terror

policies of the Committee of Public Safety to defend France from domestic threats

Under Robespierre, the Convention pursued a policy of de-Christianization because its members believed that

religion encouraged superstition, rather than the use of reason

The Russians defeated Napoleon's superior Grand Army by

retreating hundreds of miles and burning their own villages and countryside

During most of the French Revolution (1789-1799), Napoleon was

serving in the French military

Klemens von Metternich

the most influential leader at the Congress of Vienna

Nationalism

the unique cultural identity of a people


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