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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


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