Vocab
First Estate
Emperor of France after overthrowing the Directory
Napoleon
In 1812, the Russians were able to defeat Napoleon's Grand Army by...
retreating and burning down their villages.
Name one way that France was de-Christianized during the French Revolution.
street names changed; destroyed churches; changed the calendar
Napoleon was born on this island.
Corsica
The last queen of France whom the people hated for her excessive spending habits.
Maria Antoinette
The allied states joined Napoleon's struggle because they...
had been defeated by Napoleon and were forced to take his side.
The Reign of Terror set up revolutionary courts to prosecute...
counterrevolutionaries and traitors.
At what age did Napoleon begin attending military school on Corsica?
Social class consisting of the nobles.
Second Class
Describe who stormed the Palace of Versaille during the French Revolution.
Armed peasant women
When Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia met at the Congress of Vienna for peace talks after Napoleon's defeat, their aim was to...
restore European monarchs to power.
This political club felt it was necessary to execute the king for the revolution to continue.
Jacobins
This was Napoleon's wife, who had an affair and clearly did not share Napoleon's feelings.
Josephine
The middle class, including professionals
bourgeoisie
Leader of the Committee of Public Safety who enforced Reign of Terror policies
Robespierre
When Napoleon could not defeat Britain militarily, he tried to weaken the nation economically with a strategy known as the...
Continental System.
This was the less radical political club that had most of its members outside of Paris.
Girondins
Most of the people promoted to the rank of nobility under Napoleon's rule were
military officers.
Members of the Paris Commune who wore long pants to identify with common people
Sans-culotte
Leader of the Paris Commune.
Georges Danton
Napoleon's downfall began in 1812, when he decided to...
invade Russia.
The name of the government that took over after Robespierre's Reign of Terror ended.
The Directory
What did Napoleon do when his army was sent to fight the British in Egypt?