Vocabulary
Destroying land and supplies to prevent it from falling into enemy hands.
Scorched Earth
What percentage of the population was nobility?
1.5%
What were the three ideals the French Revolution were fighting for?
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
How did Napoleon become an influential figure in France?
He won a series of victories in Italy and brought back artifacts from Egypt.
What was the unified legal system that Napoleon created?
The Civil Code
A period in which political violence is used against opposition and is sanctioned by the government.
Reign of Terror
Which of France's estates was NOT exempt from taxes?
The Third Estate
The French National Assembly swore the Tennis Court Oath, which was?
A vow to continue to meet until they had produced a French constitution.
Directory.
Why did the Louisiana Purchase have the most enduring and significant consequences?
It gave the United States significant territorial power.
A small group of fighters who engage in irregular or indirect combat against larger armies.
Guerrilla.
What percentage of land was own by the clergy?
10%
The Committee of Public Safety was given broad powers to?
Defend France from threats. (Often used to execute suspected counter-revolutionaries)
What was Napoleon's plan to weaken the British economy?
The Continental System.
What does Napoleon's Wars tell us about the French Revolution?
European powers were fighting to maintain the old order and stop the Revolution.
An alliance or agreement between groups or countries to achieve a common goal.
Coalition
The French parliament established under Louis XVI
The Estates-General
What happened to Louis XVI when war broke out between France and Austria?
He was caught trying to flee; he was then removed from the throne and executed by guillotine.
The Russians defeated Napoleon's superior Grand Army by?
Retreating hundreds of miles and burning their own villages and countryside.
What are some ways Napoleon betrayed the French Revolution?
He restored the Catholic Church
He turned himself into a monarch
He forced other countries to obey him.
A condition where a worker is tied to the land they work and is subject to a local lord.
Serfdom
Why did the Third Estate walk out and form the National Assembly?
Each Estate was given one vote as a group, rigging the Estates-General in favor of the First and Second Estates.
How, according to the Declaration of the Rights of Man, is law an expression of the general will?
All citizens are able to influence the law's creation.
Waterloo
What are some ways Napoleon upheld the French Revolution?
His Civil Code was based on revolutionary ideals of equality
He spread revolutionary governments to the countries he conquered
He spread ideas of nationalism to the countries he conquered that would stick around after he left.