Definitions
People
Places
Things
BONUS
100
A sudden overthrow of government
What is coup' d etat
100
The person who defeated Napoleon
Who is the Duke of Wellington
100
The place in which Napoleon fought his LAST battle
What is the Battle at Waterloo
100
Napoleon's most famous domestic achievement
What is the Napoleonic Code
100
The Constitution of 1791
What is The Civil Constitution of The Clergy?
200
Tax exemptions, the first estate was exempt from this
What is Taille
200
Husband of Marie Antoinette
King Louis XVI
200
The event that occured on the morning of July 14th, 1789 when a Parisian mob of some eight thousand men and women in search of weapons streamed toward_________, a royal armory filled with arms and ammunition
What is the Fall of Bastille
200
The legislature of France 1791-1792
What is the Legislative Assembly
300
An effort to keep any one governmental group from gaining control
What is the Directory
300
The National Convention gave broad powers to a special committee of 12 known as the committee of public safety. It was dominated at first by Georges Danton, then by ___________________.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre
300
The meeting of the Estates-General opened at _________ on May 5, 1789
What is Versailles
300
A device for beheading a person
What is a Guillotine
400
A person of mixed black and european blood
Who are the Creoles
400
Queen of France from 1755-1793; wife of Louis XVI; executed in the French Revolution
Who is Marie Antoinette
400
The Parisian women insisted that the royal family return to _________.
What is Paris
400
Napoleon's plan in 1806 to blockade Britain by excluding her ships from ports on the mainland of Europe
What is the Continental System