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Potpourri
100
This group met in 1787 to discuss tax reforms.
What is the Estates General?
100
These people were considered members of this estate and included the urban poor wealthy merchants, guild masters, and peasants. NOT NUNS.
What is the Third Estate?
100
This event was primarily directed at any and all enemies of the Revolution.
What is the Reign of Terror?
100
This invasion by Napoleon began in June 1812.
What is the invasion of Russia?
100
This battle prevented Napoleon's planned invasion of England.
What is the Battle of Trafalgar?
200
In the 1780s, over 50 percent of France's annual budget was expended on this
What is the interest payments on the debt?
200
This event described the paranoia that existed in the countryside that fanned the flames of rebellion in the summer of 1789.
What is the Great Fear?
200
During the Reign of Terror, this man was the dominant person on the Committe of Public Safety.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
200
This system was meant to exclude British goods from the continent.
What is the continental system?
200
This declaration was issued by Austria and Prussia to intimidate French revolutionaries.
What is the Declaration of Pillnitz?
300
The legal definition on the composition of this estate included everyone who was not a noble or member of the clergy
What is the Third Estate?
300
This organization ruled France from 1789-1791 and passed laws that broadened women's rights to seek divorce and inherit property.
What is the National Assembly?
300
This event ended when members of the Convention, afraid Robespierre would turn the Terror on them, had him arrested and executed.
What is the Reign of Terror?
300
This code institutionalized women's secondary status.
What is Napoleon's Civil Code of 1804?
300
During this time, Napoleon returned from exile to rule France briefly.
What is the Hundred Days?
400
This Oath was sworn by renegade delegates from the Estates General, most from the Third Estate.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
400
This author argued that men and women would benefit from sexual equality.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
400
During this time, the Parisian crowds slaughtered prison inmates.
What is the September Massacres?
400
This event occurred first: Napoleon founds the Bank of France, Napoleon overthrows the Directory, France signs the treaty of Amiens, Britain defeats France at the Battle of Trafalgar, and Russia, Prussia, Austrian and Britain form the Quadruple Alliance.
What is Napoleon overthrowing the Directory?
400
This declaration guarenteed the rights of man and citizen including equality before the law, respresentative government, individual freedom, and the presumption of innocence in criminal investigation.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
500
This author answered the question, "What is the Third Estate?" stating that it was the most useful component of French society.
Who is Abbe Sieyes?
500
According to the text, the string of French military victories after the winter of 1793-1794 was largely due to this.
What is patriotism and the superior numbers supplied by draft?
500
This was an emergency executive committe appointed by the Convention.
What is the Committee on Public Safety?
500
This individual issued a Charter in 1814 that established a limited constitutional monarchy.
Who is Louis XVIII?
500
This group reorganized administrative provinces, introduced the metric system, abolished monopolies, guilds, and internal tarrifs, and abolished the nobility as a legal order.
What is the National Assembly