Napoleon's rule could best be described as this type of government.
What is a dictatorship?
100
This was the meeting that European rulers called after Napoleon's defeat to settle issues about the future of Europe.
What is the Congress of Vienna?
100
This group makes up the First Estate.
What is the Catholic clergy?
100
This was the name of the government created by the Third Estate when they demanded more voice in the political process.
What is the National Assembly?
100
This is the name of the government that started ruling France when the revolution took a radical turn.
What is the National Convention?
200
This is the name given to the time when Napoleon returned to France to rule in 1815.
What is the Hundred Days?
200
These are people like Prince Metternich who oppose change and want to undo changes that had already occurred.
Who are reactionaries?
200
This group makes up the Second Estate.
What is the nobility?
200
The French people were suspicious of this woman, because of her Austrian heritage, political influence on Louis XVI and her wild spending.
Who is Marie Antoinette?
200
The National Assembly seized the land of this group and sold it to French Peasants.
What is the Catholic Church?
300
Part of what led to Napoleon's rise to power was the unpopularity of this government.
What is the Directory?
300
This was a reactionary alliance in which the European rulers agreed to rule as Christians.
What is the Holy Alliance?
300
This was the term for "middle class" in French and was part of the Third Estate.
What is the bourgeoisie?
300
These groups in France did not have to pay taxes under the Old Regime, which was part of what caused the Revolution.
What is the clergy and nobility?
300
This group favored domination by Paris and was responsible for the Reign of Terror.
Who are the Jacobins?
400
This was the policy used by Russia to weaken and demoralize Napoleon's troops.
What is the scorched earth policy?
400
This is the name of the system that governed France after Napoleon's defeat.
What is the Concert of Europe?
400
This was the largest and poorest group in France.
What is the peasants?
400
This was an ideal held by revolutionaries in which all men could vote, regardless of owning property.
What is universal manhood suffrage?
400
The Declaration of the Rights of Man was adopted under this government.
What is the National Assembly?
500
This was the name given to the first five years of Napoleon's rule.
What is the Consulate?
500
This is the site where Napoleon was finally defeated in 1815.
Where is Waterloo?
500
Under the Old Regime, this is what it was called when all three Estates got together to vote.
What is the Estates General?
500
France increased its debt through financial aid to this country.
What is the United States?
500
This was the event in France in which revolutionaries used violence to try to further the ideas of the Revolution, and resulted in the death of an estimated 18,000 people.