Before the Revolution
Taille
What is Tax
The French were inspired to start their revolution by this rational movement of the 1600s and 1700s
What is the Enlightenment
The name of the most violent and radical aspect of the Revolution
What is the Reign of Terror
Basis of promotions in Napoleon's bureaucracy
What is ability or merit (not because of social standing, rank, or privilege)
Meeting of Austria, Britain, Russia, and Prussia to determine the fate of Europe after Napoleon
What is the Congress of Vienna
Name the estates and who made them up
What is the First Estate with Clergy, the Second Estate with Nobles, and the Third estate with everyone else (peasants, middle class = Bourgeoisie )
Middle class of France
What is the Bourgeoisie
Method of execution during the Revolution
What is the Guillotine
Civil laws allowing equality for men, freedom of religion, and numerous other policies
What is the Napoleonic Code
Foreign Minister of Austria
Who is Klemens Von Metternich
Two problems in France that helped cause the French Revolution
What is the Third Estate paying all the taxes, poor economy, starving people, and Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette living extravagantly , Enlightenment ideas, debt
Two Enlightenment thinkers from France
Rousseau, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Descarte, Diderot
Due to domestic and external threats, this group was given broad powers during the French Revolution
What is the Committee of Public Safety
Battle where Napoleon's army was defeated
Policy that said more powerful European nations had the right to get involved in other nations’
What is the principle of intervention
What is a promise made by the National Assembly to continue meeting until they created a constitution
What is the Tennis Court Oath
This event marked the beginning of the Revolution
What is the Storming of Bastille
Ruled as a dictator during the Reign; sent thousands to their death for being against the revolution
Who is Maximilien Robespierre
Tactic used by Russia to defeat Napoleon's army and reason
What is Scorched Earth policy; Russians retreated for hundreds of miles and burned their own villages; so Napoleon's men could not find food
Two reasons for the Meeting in Austria
To prevent future revolutions, prevent consolidation of power by a single ruler, and to redraw the borders
A charter outlining the freedoms of French men
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Men and Citizen
After completely abolishing the monarchy, France became a...
What is a Republic
Significance of the new calendar in France
To get rid of the "bad" parts of history, to symbolize a fresh start for France, and to get rid of Religion
Purpose of the Continental System
What is to stop Europe from trading with Britain, to hurt British economy
This country refused to get involved in the Concert of Europe
What is Great Britain