Name that government
When you think the king is the closest thing to God and give him all the power.
What is divine right theory?
This level was clergy members in the Estates system.
What is the 1st Estate?
Napoleon was born on this island, which was not one of the two he was eventually banished to.
What is Corsica?
Number of colonies that voted to revolt against the British in 1776.
What is 13?
What is the Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizens?
The way a government work, its laws and its rights, all written in one document.
What is a constitution?
This group made up 97% of the population, and paid a huge amount of the taxes.
What is the 3rd Estate?
The length of a standard ruler, not a yardstick or meter stick, in inches.
What is 12 inches?
Short on cash, and with a weak navy, Napoleon decided to sell this large territory to the US.
What is the Louisiana Purchase or territory?
Device invented during the French Revolution that people promoted public executions in a "humane" way.
What is the guillotine?
This idea promoted the idea of people being born equal, with rights of life, liberty and property.
What is the Enlightenment?
This is the term for a revolution of the summer, first used in the French Revolution.
What is a coup d'etat?
Napoleon eventually crowned himself this, which was sort of against how the French Revolution started.
What is emperor and/or then king?
Leader of the Haitian Revolution.
Who is Toussaint L'Overture?
Promise made by 3rd Estate members to each other to keep revolting after Louis XVI locked them out of Versailles.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
The first new government created in the French Revolution...it didn't last very long.
What is the National Assembly?
This prison was stormed on July 14, 1789 to gain arms, and serves as the symbolic start of the French Revolution.
What is the Bastille Prison?
Napoleon's invasion of Russia late in the year in 1812 cost his army approximately this many soldiers' lives.
What is 500,000?
Taking his lead from other successful revolutions, this South American liberator fought against Spanish colonialism.
Who is Simon Bolivar?
Total number of votes possible in a meeting of the Estates-General?
What is 3?
The formal name of France's government during the Reign of Terror under Robespierre.
What is the Committee for Public Safety?
This group, founded by Robespierre and Danton, were ultra-radicals who opposed anything linked to the Royalists or the old system of government.
Who were the Jacobins?
Napoleon couldn't muster a strong navy after losing so many ships to the British in this naval battle.
What is the Battle of Trafalgar?
The name of the proposed massive, united country that all of South American would have been called if a certain revolutionary had his way.
What is Gran Colombia?
Name of the conference held to put Europe back together and restore monarchs to their thrones after Napoleon's final defeat.
What is the Congress of Vienna?