Vocabulary
National Assembly
During the French Revolution, what was Napoleon doing?
Serving in the military
What did peasants think foreign invaders would do to the monarchy (king)?
Support / Restore to power
The first estate was made up of what group of people?
Clergy
One effect of rising cost of food and lack of money
Many people could not afford essentials, such as food
The French parliament
Estates-General
What was promotion within Napoleon's new bureaucracy based on?
Ability (not rank or birth)
What did peasants do when the found out Louis XVI's plan to use force against the Third Estate?
Stormed the Bastille (prison)
The second estate was composed of what group of people?
Nobility
Members of the bourgeoisie were attracted to what ideas that encouraged individual rights and freedoms
Enlightenment ideas
The French Middle Class
Bourgeoisie
How did the Russians defeat Napoleon's army?
Retreating (running away) and burning their land
The Reign of Terror set up courts to prosecute these people
traitors and counterrevolutionaries
The middle class that was part of the third estate was called what?
bourgeoisie
One cause of the French Revolution is nobility treating what group like medieval serfs
Third Estate / Peasants
Taille
Napoleon's empire collapsed because of a coalition between who?
Several European states (countries)
Who controlled the Catholic Church during the French Revolution?
The state / government
Which estate was the largest and carried most of the burden of the state?
Third estate
After the Reign Terror, was the new government able to solve France's problems?
No
Napoleon's plan to prevent other countries from trading with Britain
Continental System
Why did the allied states joined Napoleon's struggle?
They had been defeated by him and were forced to take his side.
During the French Revolution, how was the calendar changed?
10 days a week, 3 weeks per month...
What estate had the burden of paying the most taxes and had to turn over some of their harvest to the other classes?
Third Estate
One of the goals of the powers at the Congress of Vienna was to keep any one country from what?
Dominating Europe