Blast From the Past
French Revolution
After the French Revolution
Napoleon's End
100
Absolute rulers sought to gain this in their countries
What is centralized power
100
This group was extremely upset with the conditions in France
What is the Third Estate
100
After the French Revolution, this group gained more influence in government
What is the middle class
100
Napoleon set out to destroy this country, as seen by the Continental System (which proved to be ineffective)
What is Great Britain
200
The development of this new class made it easy for absolute rulers to gain power
What is the middle class
200
A major cause of the French Revolution was
What is the unfair taxing of the Third Estate
200
What effect did the French Revolution have on the world outside of France?
What is revolutionaries had a blueprint to follow for their own revolutions and revolutions become more common
200
Napoleon's biggest mistake was the invasion of this country
What is Russia
300
New knowledge and understanding during the Scientific Revolution were based on these two things
What are observations and experiments
300
This new invention made executions in the Reign of Terror much easier
What is the guillotine
300
This man came to power after the French Revolution with the goal of strengthening and restoring political stability in France
Who is Napoleon
300
This meeting was called after the final defeat of Napoleon
What is the Congress of Vienna
400
This way of thinking was highly valued by European thinkers during the Enlightenment
What is the use of reason
400
Maximilien Robespierre was directly involved in this event of the French Revolution
What is the Reign of Terror
400
How did Napoleon come to power in France?
What is he held a coup d'etat with the support of the military
400
The main goal of the Congress of Vienna was this
What is balance power in Europe
500
Enlightenment thinkers believed that the government should protect these
What are the rights of the people
500
The meeting of the Estates-General was a meeting between these three groups with the goal of solving problems in the government
What is the First, Second, and Third Estates
500
Napoleon wrote a set of laws, called the Napoleonic Code, that gave these to citizens
What is equal rights
500
After the Congress of Vienna, these ideas about pride in one's country began to spread throughout the world, especially in countries that did not have freedom
What is nationalism