Revolution
This document embraced enlightenment ideals and mirrored our Declaration of Independence.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
This event saw the peasants take up pitchforks and torches and destroy the property of the nobility.
What is the Great Fear?
A system of laws instituted by Napoleon.
What is the Napoleonic Code?
This is how Napoleon came to power, a French phrase for "blow to state".
What is a coup d'etat?
Napoleon returned from exile, and managed to regain his power for a period of time known as this.
What is the Hundred Days?
French society was split into three "classes" know as these.
What are estates?
The storming of this prison is often considered the beginning of the French Revolution.
What is the Bastille?
He founded these, in hopes of having a more educated population.
What are Lycées?
Napoleon suffered few defeats, but Horatio Nelson beat him with this type of military power at Trafalgar.
What is a naval power?
For the final time Napoleon was exiled to this island where he died in 1821.
What is St. Helena?
This "social class" paid most of the taxes.
What is the 3rd Estate?
These nobles left France during the peasant uprisings.
Who are the Emigres?
Hoping to make his empire more self-sufficient and deprive Britain of economic gains Napoleon began this system.
What is the Continental System?
The French army suffered massive casualties trying to enforce the blockades of British goods in this war fought in Spain and Portugal.
What is the Peninsular War?
He became the ruler of France after Napoleons exile.
Who is Louis XVIII?
King Louis XVI called this council together for the first time in 175 years in 1789.
What is the Estates-General?
This organization decided who was an "enemy of the republic".
What is the Committee for Public Safety?
In order to make this institution happy, Napoleon signed a concordat with Pius VII.
What is the (Catholic) church?
A scorched-earth policy lead to a devastating loss as Napoleon tried to take this European capital.
What is Moscow?
The series of meetings was designed to establish order after Napoleons defeat.
What is the Congress of Vienna?
This was the "aged" system of feudalism in place before the French revolution.
What is the Old Regime?
A period of extreme violence from July of 1794 to July of 1795.
What is the Reign of Terror?
The British army led by this duke, defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.
Who is the Duke of Wellington?
These were bands of Spanish peasant fighters who successfully fended off Napoleons army.
Who are guerrillas?
Metternich wanted to restore this in Europe, so no European country would be a threat to another.
What is a balance of power?