Chapter 19 and the Splendid Shield

Napoleonic Code

French civil code promulgated in 1804 that asserted that the 1789 "Principles of 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.

What was the goal of the Committee of Public Safety?

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

Who predicted in "Reflections on the Revolution in France" that reform like that occurring in France would lead only to chaos and tyranny?

Edmund Burke

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

Equality before the law.

How did the reaction of kings and nobles in continental Europe toward the French Revolution change over the revolution's first two years?

Initially pleased by France's weakening, then threatened by its radical message.

In the 1780's, over 50 percent of France's annual budget was expended on...

Interest payments on debt.

Why was the Declaration of Independence so important to the American Revolution?

It universalized the traditional rights of English people and made them the rights of all mankind.

Reign of Terror

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

What two fundamental principles of the French Revolution were incorporated into the Napoleonic Code?

The equality of all male citizens before the law and the absolute security of wealth and private property.

Estates General

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

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.

How did French armies during the French Revolution offer a mixed message to the people they conquered?

They presented themselves as liberators to the middle/lower class but seemed more like foreign invaders due to their plundering of resources.