Chapter 22 Study Guide: The French Revolution and Napoleon

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Who became the leader of the committee of public safety in July of ____?

Robespierre, 1793

What was a radical group named for the style of breeches it's members wore ?

Sans-culottes

The nobility were part of the _________ estate?

Second

In 1815, after the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon was banished once and for all to the island of ______ in the south Atlantic

St. Helena

When most of the delegates were forced to find a new meeting place, they made the ____________ and pledged to continue their meeting until they had drawn up a new constitution.

Tennis Court Oath

By 1812, the only areas free of French control were Portugal, _______, the Ottoman Empire, and _______

Britain, Sweden

The _______ was the executive dictatorship in charge of France whose task it was to protect the revolution from all its enemies.

Committee of Public Safety

After Napoleon Bonaparte's forceful overthrow of the government in 1799, he set up the _______.

Consulate

Napoleon was born on the island of ______ In the year ______.

Corsica, 1769

A sudden, forceful seizure of governmental control is a ____

Coup d'état

The _______ was the government body ruling France from 1795 to 1799, and it was known for _____ until it was overthrown by Napoleon

Directory, corruption

What was a social and political system used in France in the 1770s that had been in place since the Middle Ages?

Estates

On May 5, 1789, for the first time in 175 years, Louis XVI called for what to raise taxes ?

Estates-General

The king and queen of France at the start of the French Revolution were ?

Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette

Napoleon's delay of his retreat from _____ was such a great mistake because by the time they were leaving the harsh Russian ______ had set in.

Moscow, winter

_______ Bonaparte first became a national hero in France by defending the delegates of the national convention from a royalist attack.

Napoleon

The ________ was part of the third estate made up of the middle class.

bourgeoisie

A ______ is a vote of the people. In an attempt to appear to be a legitimate, ______ chosen leader, Napoleon held one.

plebiscite, constitutionally

Who were part of the First Estate?

the clergy

Napoleon became a captain in the army in ____, and the. The Committee of Public Safety made him a _______ two years later after he became a national hero.

1792, general

Napoleon crowned himself emperor of France on December 2, ____

1804

In March of ______, Paris fell to the ______, led by Czar Alexander 1, and Prussians, led by Frederick William |||. In April they exiled Napoleon to the island of ____, which was between his native Corsica and Italy.

1814, monarchy, Elba

The French celebrate the day a mob stormed the _____ prison on July 14, 1789.

Bastille

Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were eventually ..?

Beheaded

On August 4, 1789 the ________ abolished privileges for the clergy and nobility, and on _______ 26, 1789 it issued the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.

National Assembly, August

Originally called to draft a new constitution, the _______ began meeting as the ruling body of France in September of 1792

National Convention

Workers, peasants, and the bourgeoise were part of the ___________ estate?

Third

The Battle of ______ was fought off the Southwest coast of Spain, by the Straits of Gibraltar, on October 21, 1805. British admiral _________ was the victor of the battle.

Trufulgar, Lord Nelson

On October 5, 1789, the royal family was forced to leave ______ and go to Paris after the _______ March on Versailles.

Versailles, womens

The Duke of _____ won the battle Waterloo on June 18, _____

Wellington, 1815


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