The Estates
There are three of these groups, or classes, in French society.
What was the estates?
This was the carefree financial policy that caused the huge debt in France at the beginning of the reign of Louis XVI.
What was deficit spending?
This was the more “humane” device used to execute the enemies of France during the French Revolution.
What was the guillotine?
These were the three islands that played important role important in Napoleon’s life. (Birth, exiled)
What were Corsica, Elba, and St. Helena?
This was the battle, won by the Duke of Wellington, that occurred during the Congress of Vienna and ended Napoleon’s Hundred Days of power.
What was the Battle of Waterloo?
The name of the upper middle class of the third estate.
Who/what were the bourgeoisie?
These were the notebooks listing the grievances compiled by the different estates to present to Louis XVI.
What were the cahiers?
He was the leader of the Committee of Public Safety and was responsible for the Reign of Terror.
What was Maximilien Robespierre?
his was Napoleon’s economic plan to force the British to surrender due to economic collapse.
What was the Continental System?
He was the Russian czar and Russia's representative at the Congress of Vienna.
Who was Czar Alexander I?
These were the members of the second estate.
Who were the nobles?
The storming of this prison on July 14, 1789 became the rallying symbol of the French Revolution.
What was the Bastille?
These were the aristocrats and clergy who fled France to avoid execution when the Reign of Terror began.
Who were the emigres?
This was Napoleon’s system of laws that became the basis for much of modern European justice .
What was the Napoleonic Code?
This is what the Congress of Vienna said they were restoring by putting the old rulers back on the thrones of Europe.
What was legitimacy?
This was the pledge that the members of the National Assembly took that they would write a constitution for France
What was the Tennis Court Oath?
This was the French document modeled on the Declaration of Independence that stated, that all men are created equal, asserted freedom of religion, and that taxes should be assessed on ability to pay.
What was the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
This was the radical political party that sat on the left side of the Legislative Assembly.
Who were the Jacobins?
This was Napoleon’s worst naval defeat masterminded by Lord Nelson, where the French fleet was destroyed off the coast of Spain.
What was the Battle of Trafalgar?
He was the mastermind of the Congress of Vienna and he is given credit for the next hundred years of relative peace in European history.
Who was Prince Clemens von Metternich?
This was the legislative assembly of France at the beginning of the French Revolution.
What was the Estates General?
his was the claim issued by the countries of Austria and Prussia that threatened to invade France and rescue the King and his family.
What was the Declaration of Pilnitz?
This was the militant fighting song which became the French national anthem.
What was La Marseillaise?
These were the series of battles fought in Spain and Portugal by the British and guerilla forces to stop the spread of Napoleonic power.
What were the Peninsular Wars?
This was the peace keeping organization set up at the Congress of Vienna to suppress any uprisings in Europe that supported the ideals of the French Revolution.
What was the Concert of Europe?