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Key Terms
French Revolution
Reform and Terror
Napoleon Seizes Power
Key People
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This was the primary tool of execution in the French Revolution.
What is the guillotine?
100
The first esate was made up of this group.
What is the nobility?
100
This man's death, ironically by guillotine, marked the end of the Reign of Terror.
Who is Robespierre?
100
Napoleon gained fame for his success doing this job.
What is military (general)?
100
This monarch lost his head during the French Revolution.
Who is Louis XVI?
200
This political viewpoint means trying to keep things stable and the same. It was very influential at the Congress of Vienna.
What is conservastism?
200
The Third Estate broke off from the Estates General and formed this, which pledged to draw up a constitution for France.
What is the National Assembly?
200
This document outlined the goals of the revolution, including rights like free speech and political equality.
What is the Declaration on the Rights of Man and Citizen?
200
This was the comprehensive code of law that Napoleon instituted.
What is the Napoleonic Code?
200
This man began the Reign of Terror, using the guillotine to execute his political opponents.
Who is Robbespierre?
300
This term that was a focus of the Congress of Vienna refers to the power relationship between countries.
What is balance of power?
300
The period of time where peasants took control of the countryside, destroying nobles property and spreading discord is known as this.
What is the Great Fear?
300
These three factions developed in France during the early days of the revolution.
What are the conservatives, moderates, and radicals?
300
This is how Napoleon treated the Church.
What is he recognized their influence, but did not allow them their place of privalige in society?
300
This French military leader seized power in a coup de'tat and went on to expand the empire before making several critical mistakes.
Who is Napoleon?
400
Metternich asked for the pre-Napoleon leaders to be restored to their thrones on the basis of this idea.
What is legitimacy?
400
These were the economic struggles facing France before the revolution.
What are rising costs of living, tax burden on the middle class, famine which led to bread doubling and starvation in the countryside?
400
This radical group took control of the National Convention.
Who are the Jacobins?
400
France lost these two colonies (territories) in the Western Hemisphere during Napoleon's reign.
What is Haiti and Louisiana?
400
This man was restored to the throne after Napoleon's exile, but then dethroned upon Napoleon's return.
Who is Louis XVIII?
500
A sudden seizure of power, usually led by a military leader is known as this.
What is a coup de'tat?
500
This caused the French Revolution
What is political inequality between the estates, economic inequality (tax burden on third estate), Louis XVI's weak leadership, Enlightenment ideas of natural rights and social contract, and the successful model of the American Revolution?
500
This was the name of the five man executive committee created after the end of the Reign of Terror.
What is the Directory?
500
These are three countries that fought against Napoleon.
What is Austria, Prussia, Russia, or Britain?
500
This Austrian prince dominated the Congress of Vienna, instituting conservative reforms.
Who is Klemens von Metternich?