Napoleonic Period
People
Enlightenment Ideas
American Revolution
Surprise
100

When Napoleon became emperor of France in 1804, he shocked onlookers by doing THIS during the crowning ceremony - a total break with historical precedent.

Crowned himself, instead of the pope crowning him

100

He was a leading Enlightenment thinker, Founding Father of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence

Thomas Jefferson

100

The Free Market economic system which has dominated Western Civilization (and now much of the world) for the past 200 years is often referred to by THIS, its other name

Capitalism

100

This March 5, 1770 event involved British soldiers firing upon an unruly American crowd - killing 5 - who were taunting them with insults and threats as well as pelting them with snowballs and rocks

The Boston Massacre

100

The Protestant Reformation began in 1517 when ___________ nailed 95 theses to a _________ door in Wittenberg, Germany.

Martin Luther, Cathedral

200
Throughout the French Revolutionary/Napoleonic period, seven separate international alliances against France formed over the course of 26 years. England was the leading nation in almost every one, but Russia, Prussia, and Austria were members of many, too. The seven alliances were known as __________.

Coalitions

200
He is considered the Father of Science. This English philosopher discovered Calculus, theorized Gravity and established the Three Laws of Motion

Sir Isaac Newton

200

This Social Contract philosopher argued that once a people agreed to form a society (A "Social Contract"), only one force could be supreme, and it came 100% from the group members themselves. He called this force "The _____ ______ "

General Will

200

This temporary body - established in Philadelphia in 1774 - governed the American colonies throughout the whole Revolutionary War, and was populated by well known Founders like Washington, Jefferson and Adams

The Continental Congress

200

Jesus Christ lived during THIS period of Western history

The Classical (Roman Empire)

300

On the one hand, Napoleon wiped away many of the French Revolution's gains (democracy, abolishing slavery, increased rights for Women). On the other hand, he took full advantage of other changes. Can you name ONE?

-Advent of Meritocracy

-Abolishment of Nobility

-Full national mobilization "Levee en masse"

300

His book, Common Sense, circulated through the American colonies between 1775-1776. It was a leading factor in Americans pushing the Continental Congress to declare independence the following July

Thomas Paine

300

Johannes Kepler's discovery that the planets in the Solar System revolved around the Sun in ____________ orbits, NOT perfectly round ones, was a symbolic turning point from Renaissance idealism to the experimentation-only-based methodology of the Scientific Revolution.

Elliptical 

300

About 1/4 - 1/3 of the American population DID NOT support the Revolution, and remained pro-British. Although they were sometimes mistreated - even violently on a few occasions - they never suppressed, jailed or executed like counterrevolutionaries in the French Revolution.

Loyalists

300

These FOUR European nations conquered the largest colonial empires in the Americas by the 1700s

Spain, Portugal, England, France

400

This 1815 battle spelled the final end of Napoleon. It has since been used to describe the "last stand" of a person's career.

Waterloo

400
This Austrian born princess became the last queen of France prior to the Revolution. She was guillotined during the Reign of Terror in 1793

Marie Antoinette

400

These coffee-house style meeting spaces - often managed by educated women - were the places where intellectual philosophers generated, discussed and disseminated key ideas of the Enlightenment.

Salons

400

This Social Contract philosopher was the MOST influential on the American Founders and the American Founding Documents (Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights)

John Locke

400

This economic system preceded Capitalism. Trade, resources and colonies were highly controlled by nation state governments who saw the world as a "zero sum game" of competition.

Mercantilism

500
Napoleon was exiled, twice to islands. First to Elba, from which he escaped. Finally, to __________ in the Atlantic Ocean, where he died in 1821.

St. Helena

500

This English economist's book, the Wealth of Nations is often considered the "Bible" of Capitalism

Adam Smith

500
One of the three great Social Contract theorists opened his book with "Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains."  That philosopher was

Rousseau

500

The "Shot Heard Round the World" was fired April 19, 1775 at THIS Massachusetts battle right outside Boston.

Lexington

500
King Louis XVI locked the deputies of the Estates General out of their meeting space at the beginning of the French Revolution as their democratic fervor became alarming. In defiance, the deputies met in the nearest available space and swore to never disband until France had a constitution. The event was called the 

Tennis Court Oath