Who was Robespierre?
The leader of the Committee of Public Safety and dictator during the Reign of Terror.
What were the three phases of the French Revolution? Name them
1. Constitutional Monarchy
2. Social Republic
3. Conservative Republic - Directory
Where did Napoleon die?
St Elena
When was the Congress of Vienna celebrated?
1814-1815
What does this picture represent?
Storming of the Bastilla
How did the Constitutional Monarchy phase finish?
Luis XVI escaped and he was caught + Austrian army invaded France and reached Paris
What bourgeoisie made up the Directory?
Moderate
How did Napoleon reach the power?
With a coup
What was the name of the Treaty of mutual assistance signed after the Congress of Vienna?
The Holy Alliance Treaty
Who organised this Congress?
The Austrian chancellor Metternich
What type of suffrage voted for the Constitution during the Jacobin Convention?
universal male suffrage
What important declaration was passed during the Constitutional Monarchy?
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
What was the set of laws that Napoleon created called?
The Napoleonic Code.
In what years were the two revolutionary waves?
1830 and 1848
What moment of history opened with this?
Napoleonic Empire
What was the excutive power during the Jacobin Convention?
Committee of Public Safety
What were the Social Laws passed by the Jacobin Convention? Three of them
Church lands were sold among poor people
Law of Maximum
Compulsory education
What made Napoleon fall?
He conquered countries by force and with violence: a strong ant-French sentiment + invade Russia and Spain at the same time + a coalition of European countries defeated him in Waterloo.
What two opposing forces appeared in Europe after the Congress of Vienna?
Liberalism and nationalism.
What does this picture represent?
Louis XVI and Maria Antonieta in the guillotine.
What were the opposing forces to the Girondin Convention that created political instability?
Absolutist coalition of monarchies to stop the Revolution in France
Royalist plots and other revolutions inside the country.
What was the name of the Law which allowed to guillotined many people?
Law of Suspects
Describe the Hundred Days.
Napoleon's last bid for power when he escaped from Elba only to lose at Waterloo.
What were the principles of the Absolutist Restoration? Name the 3 of them.
Restore absolute monarchy.
Denial of constitutional principles and national sovereignty.
The right of intervention in foreign countries.
Who painted this picture?
Delacroix