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Where is Waterloo, today?

Belgium

What does D.O.R.O.M.A.C. stand for?

Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

Name of the radical political club behind the changes in 1792

Jacobins

Who was the king of France at the start of the French Revolution?

Louis XVI

The most important consequence of the Battle of Austerlitz was

Napoleon believed he could not be defeated

French civil code promulgated in 1804 that reasserted the 1789 principles of the equality of all male citizens before the law and the absolute security of wealth and private property, as well as the restriction of rights accorded to women by previous revolutionary laws.

Napoleonic Code

How did the Concordat resolve the crisis over Catholicism in France in the Napoleonic era?

The Catholic Church gained the right to practice religion freely, while the French state gained greater control over the nomination of church officers and church activities.

The attack on the Bastille had what political effect?

The king's plans to reassert his authority were forestalled, permitting the National Assembly to continue its work.

As the Jacobins gained power, what was their reaction to women's political activity?

They banned all women's political activity, which they believed to be disorderly and a distraction from women's proper domestic duties.

What does the word plebiscite mean?

a vote of the people

Guilotine

machine to chop peoples heads off.

What strategy did Czar Alexander I use to defeat Napoleon in Russia?

scorched-earth policy

From 1792 to 1795, the second phase of the French Revolution, during which the fall of the French monarchy introduced a rapid radicalization of politics.

second revolution

Napoleon's laws were called _______________

the Napoleonic code

What was the name of the conservative government that replaced the radical government of France?

the directory

Who was the Austrian Foreign Minister that dominated the Congress of Vienna?

Klemons von Metternich

What was the slogan of the French Revolution?

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

Who was the Queen of France when the French Revolution began?

Marie Antionette

The social and political system of France prior to 1789.

Old Regime

What was the goal of the Committee of Public Safety?

To use dictatorial powers to respond to threats to France from without and within

The Congress of Vienna was politically ____________

conservative

The National Assembly that ruled France from 1789 to 1791 passed laws that

declared all men and women to be equal.

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen guaranteed

equality before the law.

The three legal categories, or orders, of France's inhabitants: the clergy, the nobility, and everyone else.

estates

A legislative body in pre-revolutionary France made up of representatives of each of the three classes, or estates; it was called into session in 1789 for the first time since 1614.

estates general

The men elected to represent the third estate at the Estates General were primarily

lawyers and government officials.

Napoleon's first exile was to St. Helena

no

Tenis Court Oath

third estate vowed not to disband unitl france had a new constitution- starting point of revolution

Napoleon second wife, Marie-Louis, was?

Austrian

What was the name of the 12 member radical group that enforced the radical phase of the Revolution?

Committee of Public Safety

A gathering of the nations of Europe that determined the political course of Europe in the aftermath of Napoleon.

Congress of Vienna

Congress of Vienna

(1814-1815 CE) Meeting of representatives of European monarchs called to reestablish the old order after the defeat of Napoleon.

The French Revolution started in (year)

1789

What group of people made up the 1st Estate, 2nd 3rd estate

1st- clergy 2nd Nobility 3rd- everyone and everything else

British Admiral who was referred to as the "Napoleon of the Sea". Defeated the French navy at the Battle of the Nile and the Battle of Trafalgar. He was mortally wounded in the latter.

Admiral Horatio Nelson

Estates General

An assembly of representatives from all three of the estates, or social classes, in France.

What was Napoleon's Grand Empire?

An enlarged France, a number of satellite kingdoms, and the independent but allied states of Austria, Prussia, and Russia.

A moderate group that fought for control of the French National Convention in 1793.

Girdondists

The empire over which Napoleon and his allies ruled, encompassing virtually all of Europe except Great Britain and Russia.

Grand Empire

Coronation of Napoleon Where is this taking place?

Jacques-Louis David Notre Dame Cathedral

Napoleon was Italian ?

yea

The French Revolution should be considered one of the greatest events in the history of mankind.

yeaup

The first French revolutionary legislature, made up primarily of representatives of the third estate and a few from the nobility and clergy, in session from 1789 to 1791.

National assembly

Napoleon's ill-fated attempted to dominate Portugal and Spain.

Peninsular War

Jacobins

Radical republicans during the French Revolution. They were led by Maximilien Robespierre from 1793 to 1794.

The period from 1793 to 1794 during which Robespierre's Committee of Public Safety tried and executed thousands suspected of treason and a new revolutionary culture was imposed.

Reign of Terror

was was the goal of the Congress of Vienna? Correct Answer:

to establish a balance of power in Europe

A political club in Revolutionary France whose members were well-educated radical republicans.

Jacobin Club

What country hosted the Congress of Vienna

Austria

What was the economic effect of Napoleon's Continental System?

French artisans and the middle class suffered, for they were economically damaged by the blockade of Great Britain.

The laboring poor of Paris, so called because the men wore trousers instead of the knee breeches of the aristocracy and middle class; the word came to refer to the militant radicals of the city.

Sans-culottes

The most radical and bloody stage of the French Revolution is called_____________

The Terror

In the wake of the Great Fear in the summer of 1789, the National Assembly restored order by

abolishing all of the old noble and church privileges.

What was the name of the representative body that met only when the King called them? HINT, they hadn't been called in 175 years!

estates general

Napoleon's return from exile and his attempt to re-establish his rule in France, if not all of Europe.

Hundred Days

Fall of the Bastille

Hundreds of hungry people stormed the prison in search of gunpowder to save Paris and the National Assembly; this was the symbolic start of the revolution

A blockade imposed by Napoleon to halt all trade between continental Europe and Britain, thereby weakening the British economy and military.

Continental System

Napoleon's attempt to economically choke out the British was called the _________________

Continental System

The fear of noble reprisals against peasant uprisings that seized the French countryside and led to further revolt.

Great Fear

Name of the killing machine designed to behead people during the French Revolution

Guilotine

Which of the following correctly identifies Napoleon Bonaparte's background?

He won brilliant victories in Italy in 1796 and 1797.

What did the 3rd Estate rename itself?

National Assembly

Why did members of the National Convention turn against Robespierre on the Ninth of Thermidor?

They believed that Robespierre might soon have them arrested and executed.


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