Louis XIV & Causes
This type of ruler holds nearly complete control over the government.
What is an absolute monarch?
Louis XVI called this meeting of representatives to address France’s financial crisis.
What is the Estates-General?
This revolutionary document promised liberty, equality, freedom of expression, and legal protections.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
This weak five-person government ruled France before Napoleon seized power.
What is the Directory?
Napoleon created this trade blockade in an unsuccessful attempt to weaken Britain.
What is the Continental System?
Louis XIV built this enormous palace, where he could closely monitor France’s nobles
What is Versailles?
The Third Estate created this new representative body after disagreements at the Estates-General.
What is the National Assembly?
This legal protection means that a person should be considered innocent until evidence proves otherwise.
What is the presumption of innocence?
This term means a sudden seizure of political power.
What is a coup d’état?
Spanish fighters used this form of warfare involving surprise attacks by small groups.
What is guerrilla warfare?
This belief claimed that a monarch received the authority to rule from God.
What is divine right?
In this promise, members of the National Assembly agreed not to separate until they had written a constitution.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
This emergency organization received extensive power to defend the Revolution from its enemies.
What is the Committee of Public Safety?
Napoleon used this vote of the people to create the appearance that citizens approved his power.
What is a plebiscite?
Russian forces destroyed food and supplies so Napoleon’s army could not use them. This strategy is called this.
What is a scorched-earth policy?
This estate included most French people and carried most of the tax burden.
What is the Third Estate?
On July 14, 1789, Parisians attacked this prison and symbol of royal authority.
What is the Bastille?
This law allowed the government to arrest people merely suspected of opposing the Revolution.
What is the Law of Suspects?
This uniform system of laws eliminated some injustices but also restricted rights.
What is the Napoleonic Code?
Britain and Prussia helped defeat Napoleon in this 1815 battle.
What is the Battle of Waterloo?
Name two major problems that helped cause the French Revolution.
What are any two of the following: government debt, unfair taxation, social inequality, food shortages, rising bread prices, weak leadership, or Enlightenment ideas?
During this event, protesters forced Louis XVI and the royal family to leave Versailles and move to Paris.
What is the Women’s March on Versailles?
Explain one way the Reign of Terror violated a promise made in the Declaration of the Rights of Man.
Examples include arresting people without reliable evidence, denying fair trials, treating suspects as guilty, restricting speech or religion, or applying laws unfairly.
Identify one way Napoleon advanced a revolutionary goal and one way he betrayed a revolutionary goal.
Which of Napoleon’s three costly mistakes was the most damaging, and why?
Answers will vary, but students must identify the Continental System, Peninsular War, or invasion of Russia and support their choice with accurate evidence.