The French Revolution / Napoleon
From 1793 to 1794, this was a violent period during the French Revolution when thousands of people were executed for being seen as enemies of the revolution.
What is Reign of Terror?
This was the city where Rus (later Russia) was founded. Now the capital of Ukraine.
What is Kyiv or Kiev?
The Industrial Revolution started in this country in the 1700s.
What is Great Britain?
This refers to the political and military struggles in the 19th and early 20th centuries over the weakening Ottoman Empire and what European powers should do with its territories.
What is the Eastern Question?
This was the name of the man who led France during the Reign of Terror, many accused him of becoming a tyrant.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
These were the three estates of France.
What was the first estate (monarchy), second estate (nobles / clergy), and the third estate (peasants)
This was the family that ruled Russia after the Time of Troubles.
What is the Romanov family?
This was the idea that the government should not interfere with businesses, allowing them to grow and operate freely, which helped industries expand quickly during the Industrial Revolution.
What is laissez-faire economics?
This was France and England's stance on the fate of the Ottoman Empire in the 1800s.
This was a group of skilled workers, like blacksmiths or weavers, who joined together to protect their jobs, set rules for their craft, and make sure everyone learned the skills properly. Controlled all manufacturing in cottages before the Industrial Revolution.
What are guilds.
This was the reason Napoleon sold the territory of Louisiana to the American government in 1803.
What is he needed money to raise an army so he could invade the Russian empire.
This was a reason Russia was considered "backwards" or behind other European powers before Peter the Great came to power in 1682.
This is an economic and political system where the government or community owns and controls businesses and resources, aiming for equal distribution of wealth and opportunities. First became prevalent during the Industrial Revolution due to poor working conditions.
What is socialism?
This note, issued in 1876 by Austria-Hungary's foreign minister, emphasized Austria-Hungary's adherence to non-interventionism, particularly regarding the internal affairs of the Ottoman Empire and the Balkans, signaling a reluctance to interfere in the region's political dynamics.
What is the Andrassy Note.
This was the name of the Russian treaty that provided for the creation of a large Bulgarian state through which Russia would further control the Balkans. The rest of Europe rejected this treaty.
What is the San Stefano Peace Treaty?
This was the name of the battle between Napoleon's French forces and the Russian army near Moscow which the Russians ultimately burned to the ground in order to prevent Napoleon from occupying it.
What is the Battle of Borodino?
This was why Russia wanted control of the Black Sea.
What is this was the only warm water port on Russia's western side
These are four impacts of the Industrial Revolution
What is urbanization, increased production, environmental changes, and social class changes.
These were two reasons Russia supported Serbia and Bulgaria in the Balkan rebellions against the Ottoman Empire.
Describe a similarity between Russia's wars in Crimea in 1853 and 2014.
What is (any of these is acceptable) Russia's army was large but poor trained, logistical failures, a desire to check European power around the Black Sea.
Describe four outcomes of the Congress of Vienna in 1814
What is restoration of monarchies in France and Spain, redrawing of European map to balance power, creation of the German Confederation, and Switzerland was recognized as a neutral country?
This is the name of the narrow waterway connecting the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, a strategic location for Russia and the Ottoman Empire.
What is the Bosphorus Strait?
This was the way a way the Industrial Revolution impact the Crimean War
Acceptable answers . . . new railroads and railways got troops to battlefield locations faster, telegraphs spread the news of battlefield achievements, guns were mass produced for soldiers
This was a meeting of European powers after the Russo-Turkish wars to redraw borders in the Balkans, which resulted in Montenegro gaining independence, while others, like Serbia and Bulgaria, faced new conflicts and challenges over their territories.
What is the Congress of Berlin?
This was the reason, despite having nearly an army made up of a million men, Russia's army was considered weaker then the allied force of Great Britain, France, and Italy.
What is Russia's army was made up of serfs forced into military service (conscripted) who had little desire or reason to fight.