What caused the French peasants to revolt against nobles?
Famine and fear of government assault
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Who said, "Frenchmen, I die innocent. I pardon the authors of my death. I pray God that the blood about to be spilt will never fall upon the head of France..."
Louis XVI
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What years did Napoleon Bonaparte dominate France?
1799-1815
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What does estates mean?
Estates were the three social classes in France.
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What is a cause of the debt that France was suffering from?
American Revolution
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What was the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
a document modeled after the American Declaration of Independence. All men were "born and remain free and equal in rights"
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What was the Committee of Public Safety created?
To deal with the threats to France
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What was Napoleon's biggest loss early in his career?
The 1798 expedition to Egypt.
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What is plebiscite?
popular vote by ballot
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Who was Jacques Necker?
A financial expect and advisor of Louis XVI
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What happened when the women marched on Versailles?
6,000 women marched 13 miles from Paris to Versailles shouting "bread" and demanded the King to move to Paris.
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How did the Reign of Terror cause the National Convention to be replaced by the Directory?
Members of the Convention executed radicals and created the Directory.
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Who crowned Napoleon emperor?
He crowned himself
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What is the guillotine?
A fast-falling blade that extinguished life quickly
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What happened on July 14, 1789?
The storming of the Bastille
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Why were women upset about the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
Because it did not grant citizenship to women.
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How did the Revolution bring change?
dislodged the old social order, overthrew the monarchy, brought the Church under state control
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What is one of the reasons Napoleon found success reforming France?
Won support across class lines, encouraged emigres to return, peasants had a right to land, middle class approved of economic reforms.
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What does emigres means?
Nobles, clergy and others who fled France during the revolution.
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Why did they storm the Bastille?
It was a symbol to the people of France of abuse from monarchy.
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Who were the san-culottes?
They were working-class men and women who were radical in the revolution.
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What is Nationalism?
A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country
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What were the Napoleonic Codes?
They embodied Enlightenment principles, such as the equality of all citizens before the law, religious tolerance, abolition of feudalism
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What does Jacobians mean?
Middle-class lawyers or intellectuals who advanced the causes of the Republic.