Governments
The governing body that breaks away from the Estates-General meeting
What is the National Assembly?
Philosophical document that lays out the ideals of the revolution.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
Who is Georges Danton?
The blockade of British ships into French conquered ports.
What is the Continental System?
Poll tax on each person.
What is Capitation?
This governing body's goal was to create France's first constitution.
What is the National Constituent Assembly?
Placed the Roman Catholic Church under state control.
What is the Civil Constitution of the Clergy?
Court that prosecuted enemies of the revolution.
What is the Revolutionary Tribunal?
The battle in which Napoleon is finally defeated and then exiled a second time.
What is the Battle of Waterloo?
Sudden and illegal seizure of power.
What is a Coup D'etat?
The government body that successfully abolishes France's constitutional monarchy.
What is the National Convention?
Threated French citizens if they harmed Louis XVI & called for French citizens to rally behind him.
The primary figure of the reign of terror who believed in virtue through terror.
Who is Robespierre?
The battle in which Napoleon defeats the third coalition & dissolves the Holy Roman Empire.
What is the Battle of Austerlitz?
What is Napoleonic Code?
The governing body that is created by the first French constitution.
What is the Legislative Assembly?
What is 1792?
Executive governing body of 12 men that suppressed the revolution.
What is the Committee of Public Safety?
The battle in which Napoleon realizes his dreams of invading Britain is impossible because Britain dominates the seas.
What is the Battle of Trafalgar?
What is Levee en Masse?
The government that puts an end to the French Republic.
What is the Consulate?
French term for "list of grievances" that the estates brought to the Estates-General meeting.
Cahiers
The number of men who served as "directors"
What is 5?
Three of Napoleon's domestic reforms.
What is the Bank of France, public works programs, equal tax system, University of France?
The two houses of the Directory's legislature.
What is the Council of the Five Hundred & the Council of Ancients?