Vocabulary
A social class in France was called an?
What is an estate.
What is a blockade?
What is the forcable closing of ports.
Where was Napoleon exiled to the second time?
What is St. Helena
What is Madame Deficit
Parisian workers and small shopkeepers who wanted the Revolution to bring even greater changes to France
Who were Sans-culottes
What stopped Napoleon’s Grand Army?
What is the Russian winter
And the Yeti
Burning grain fields and slaughtering livestock so as to leave nothing for the enemy to eat was known as what?
What is scorched earth
What were lycees?
What were government run public schools
What was the Concordat?
An agreement
Not a croissant
The period of time in which Robespierre was dictator of Revolutionary France was known as what?
What is the Reign of Terror
What was the only major European power to remain outside of Napoleon’s European Empire?
What is Great Britain
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What was the Peninsular War?
What was the war on the Iberian Peninsula between Spain and France
Assembly of European leaders that met after the Napoleonic era to piece Europe back together.
What was Congress of Vienna
Where Napoleon was was first exiled to?
What is Elba
Napoleon’s last bid for power was known as what?
What is the 100 days
A Jacobin leader became the head of the Committee of Public Safety and governed France as a dictator
Who was Maximilien Robespierre
What was the only major battle Napoleon lost in his quest for a British Empire? Who was the commander who defeated him?
Battle of Trafalgar and Horatio Nelson
What was the Estates General?
An assembly of representatives from all three estates
What was the Continental System?
What was a blockade to prevent all trade and communication between Great Britain and other European nations