Important Folk
This person helped bring Russia into modern times....
Peter the Great
What was the event known as the "October Days"?
Where women marched on Paris demanding bread for their families.
What was the time known as the "Hundred Days"?
When Napoleon escaped from the island of Elba, made his way back to Paris, and once again became the scourge of Europe (until Waterloo!!)
Who was the king during the French Revolution?
Louis XVI
What did they call Napoleon's laws that he carried to every country he conquered, which included strict censorship and excluding women from political community?
Napoleonic Code
The Industrial Revolution started in which European nation and (within 50 years) when did it start? You have to answer both to get full credit! :)
England in the 1750s (it soon spread to many other nations, too)
Provide the correct order and some titles of the hierarchy of French life prior to the revolution (i.e., the Estates):
First Estate - Clergy (church people)
Second Estate - King, queen, knights, lords ...
Third Estate - Doctors, lawyers, craftsmen, peasants
List at least THREE of the causes of the French Revolution:
1) Extreme debt as a nation (the King's fault!)
2) High taxes
3) Failed harvests
4) Bread riots
5) Struggles with the aristocrats
Where was Toussaint L'Ouverture first a slave, then leader of a rebellion against the French as a general that freed an island?
Haiti
The Marquis de Lafayette is famous for several reasons. Name two of them:
1) Supporting Americans in the Revolutionary War with Britain.
2) Training and leading our soldiers.
3) He gave over $200,000 to provide uniforms and weapons for the American patriots.
What was the "Continental System"?
A failed attempt by Napoleon to block all trade with England by controlling all ports in Europe.
The chapter 4 summary mentions an example of a working-class Industrial Revolution city.... which of these does it list:
1) London
2) Manchester
3) Liverpool
Manchester
Who was the director of the Committee of Public Safety and helped send thousands under the guillotine's blade?
Maximilien Robespierre
What was at least one of the most significant changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution?
Transportation
Communication
Define the difference in these terms from the French Revolution:
1. Great Fear
2. Reign of Terror
1. Great Fear - where the peasants attacked the rich aristocrats, causing the aristocrats to leave the country.
2. Reign of Terror - Where no one seemed safe from the guillotine. First the Jacobins murdered the people; then the Girondists took power and killed the Jacobins and others. About 40,000 met "the blade!"