Miscellaneous
French Revolution: Causes
French Rev./Reign of Terror
Napoleon
Scientific Revolution
100
Unique cultural identity of a people
Who is nationalism?
100
The Estate in France which had to pay all the taxes to support the country.
What is Third Estate?
100
The beheading machine used during the Reign of Terror.
What is the Guillotine?
100
Laws that Napoleon passed when he was Emperor of France.
What are the Napoleonic Civil Codes?
100
Grand Army
What is the name of Napoleon's military force?
200
These people developed ideas on how to use reason to change government to help the people.
Who are the Philosophes?
200
The name of the Middle Class group which actually started the French Revolution.
What is the bourgeoisie?
200
King who loses his head when France changes from an Absolute Monarchy to a Republic (Radical Change).
Who is King Louis XVI?
200
The protection of France against foreign countries once Napoleon was in power
What is the original purpose of the Committee of Public Safety?
200
The goal of the Congress of Vienna.
What was to restore the Balance of Power to Europe?
300
The three original "Natural Rights."
What are Life, Liberty, and Property?
300
The voting policy of the Estates General.
What is each Estate got one vote - Third Estate always loses - unfair!
300
Dealt with international opposition during the Reign of Terror.
What is the Committee of Public Safety?
300
Promotions were based on this within Napolean's govt.
What is ability/merit?
300
People put back in power to bring Europe back to pre-revolutionary France.
Who are Monarchs?
400
Dissenting groups in the French Revolution
What are factions (within the Jacobins)?
400
The social group for each of the Three Estates.
What is Clergy/First Estate, Nobles/Second Estate, Peasants & Bourgeoisie/Third Estate?
400
Ended tax exemptions for 1st and 2nd estates and gave freedom of speech and press in France
What is the Declaration of Rights of Man and the Citizen?
400
The purpose was to stop British trade with Europe.
What is Napolean's Continental System?
400
Two ways France was weakened by the Congress of Vienna.
What is France was not allowed to have a military, had to pay war damages, surrounded by stronger countries, had to give back conquered lands, etc...
500
The Consulate
What is Napolean's govt after 1799?
500
Coup d'etat
What is the sudden overthrow of a government?
500
Napolean's allies against Great Britain and the rest of Europe (Prussia, Austria, Russia, and Sweden)
Who are the allied states?
500
The government of France that Napoleon toppled
What is The Directory?
500
The country that the city of Vienna is in.
What is Austria?