The estate under the Old Regime that contained 97% of the population.
What is the 3rd Estate?
100
The body of French civil laws that were introduced by Napoleon in 1804 and has served as a model for many nations' laws
What is Napoleonic Code?
200
The period of time during which Maximilien Robespierre governed France.
What is "The Reign of Terror?"
200
The weak King of France during the French Revolution who fled but was arrested and executed
Who is Louis XVI?
200
When a people have a strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country
What is nationalism?
200
The land that Napoleon sold to America for $15 million.
What is the Louisiana Territory?
200
Napoleon's plan to cut off Britain of supplies.
What is a Blockade?
300
The idea of keeping the countries of Europe relatively equal in terms of strength.
What is Balance of Power?
300
These French working class men and women wore long trousers and they made the French Revolution more radical
Who is the sans-culotte?
300
Fighting that is conducted through hit-and-run raids by small bands of fighters.
Not to be confused with a similar term that means when large African primates fight each other.
What is guerrilla warfare?
300
The style of government that was set up in Britain and France after the Congress of Vienna.
What is Constitutional Monarchy?
300
The name Napoleon gave to trying to make Europe more Self-sufficient. This meant closing European ports to British goods.
What is the Continental System?
400
The Russian practice of burning fields and slaughtering their livestock.
What is the scorched-earth policy?
400
This Frenchman was appointed by King Louis XVI suggested taxing the clergy and nobles in order to fix France's financial problems
Who is Jacques Necker?
400
Napoleon used this principle to restore monarchies that had been unseated during the French Revolution
What is legitimacy?
400
The reason that Napoleon divorced his wife Josephine and married Marie Louise of Austria.
What is to have a male heir to the throne?
400
Napoleon's once proud Grand Army was defeated by these two things in Russia
What are the scorched-earth policy and the Russian winter?
500
Members of this group were part of a radical political club during the Revolution
What are Jacobins?
500
A French journalist that wanted women to have equal rights during the French Revolution. Wrote the "Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Female Citizen"
Who is Olympe de Gouges?
500
The names of two of the four areas that Napoleon had not controlled in Europe by 1812.
What is Portugal, Britain, Sweden, Russia or the Ottoman Empire?
500
The name of the group that made up the 1st estate, who made up less than 1% of the overall population of France.
What is the clergy?
500
The huge battle at sea that destroyed most of Napoleon's navy.