The French Revolution
The Storming of Bastille, The Declaration of the Rights of Man & the Citizen, & the Reign of Terror, all happened as a result of what historic period in history?
What is the French Revolution
In what type of school was Napoleon trained to prepare him for his future?
In military school where he studied strategy.
Fighting with the Italian "Red Shirts" and leading as "Sword" of Italy. What military leader unified Italy using guerrilla warfare tactics?
A. Camillo di Cavour
B. Giuseppe Garibaldi
C. Giuseppe Mazzini
B. Giuseppe Garibaldi
Touissant L'Ouverture was the leader of a revolution that took place in the Caribbean sugar colony, that is now the country of ...
Haiti
What country did the region of Prussia become?
What new weapon was used during the French Revolution that led to thousands of people being beheaded during the Reign of Terror (including the king).
The guillotine.
What leader took advantage of the political chaos following the French revolution to rise to power?
Napoleon Bonaparte
Who was the brains behind the unification of Italy?
A. Camillo di Cavour
B. Giuseppe Garibaldi
C. Giuseppe Mazzini
A. Camillo di Cavour
Touissant L'Ouverture hoped to free Haiti from European control by taking advantage of the revolution in the country which ruled Haiti. Which European country controlled Haiti?
France
What happened when Napoleon escaped the island of Elba? Where was he taken after this?
100 Days of war in Paris, ending at the Battle of Waterloo. He was imprisoned on the well fortified St. Helena island, where he died of stomach cancer.
Prior to the French Revolution, which class has the most people but the least power?
The Third Estate
Napoleon was defeated by what two countries and their natural resources? Name both countries & the advantage they used to stop Napoleon.
Russian winters & Great Britain's command of the sea.
Known as the "Iron Chancellor" who unified Germany with blood and steel?
Otto von Bismarck
What revolutionary leader was born in Venezuela, fought to end Spanish control in all of South America. He is known as the George Washington of South American & has a South American country named in his honor.
Simon Bolivar
What is a power vacuum (from your timeline notes about the French Revolution)?
A. Where all the countries do a deep clean of their palaces to get ready for guests
B. Created when there are too small kingdoms competing in the Olympics
C. Created when there is a country in which on one can fill the leadership position (strong leader needed)
D. When everyone in the country agrees to elect a person that is new to politics
C. Created when there is a country in which on one can fill the leadership position (strong leader needed)
Which French king spent the people's money lavishly, and is sometimes called the Sun King because he believed that his country should revolve around him like the planets revolve around the sun?
King Louis XiV
What was the meeting called that was held to divide up Napoleon's empire among European victors?
DAILY DOUBLE = Important Information: As a result of the this meeting & Napoleon's rule, nationalism was awakened & it led to several small states to become unified. Name one of these new unified states or countries
The Congress of Vienna
Prussia = Germany
Italy
What was a result of the Franco-Prussian war?
a. The Napoleonic Wars ended
b. Otto von Bismarck has a dinner party
c. Italy becomes the most powerful nation in Europe
d. The German states united (under Wilhelm I)
d. The German states united (under Wilhelm I)
Miguel Hidalgo, a Catholic priest & revolutionary leader/hero, led the way for what country to gain its independence from Spain after 11 years of war?
Miguel Hidalgo
What was Napoleon’s continental system?
a. Cutting England/Great Britain out of trade, and trading only with countries on the continent of Europe
b. Military tactic to avoid attacking an enemy head on, but instead attacking from a side flank
c. The act of piracy in which you steal all the goods off another ship’s boat for your country.
a. Cutting England/Great Britain out of trade, and trading only with countries on the continent of Europe
Which group would have been a part of the Third Estate in the period just before the French Revolution, most likely participating in the Tennis Court Oath?
a. the King B. Lawyers
c. Nobles D. Priests
The Third Estate was made up of commoners, lawyers among them = B
The meeting of the heads of European states in Vienna in 1815 resulted in...
A. the establishment of a united Germany
B. The severe punishment of France & war crimes
C. The wealthy's attempt to restore the principle of monarchy (to restore their power)
D. European constitution reflecting the principles of the French Revolution
C. The wealthy's attempt to restore the principle of monarchy
How did the French Revolution led to the rise of the nationalistic movement throughout Europe in the early 1800's?
People united under both a strong love for their country and a desire for rights for the people. Often resulting in the overthrown of governments or unification of small states.
In what way was the independence movement in Haiti DIFFERENT from the independence movement led by Simon Bolivar in South America?
a. Haiti' was a violent slave revolt
b. Haiti's movement was not successful
c. Haiti revolted against Spanish control
d. Haiti won their independence with U.S. assistance.
DAILY DOUBLE: What Haitian leader murdered all French citizens in Haiti, ending slavery in Haiti but also causing the war debt that would keep Haiti in poverty?
a. Haiti' was a violent slave revolt
Daily Double
Dessaline
How did: Industrialization and the Enclosure Movement, cause urbanization in England?
Cottage industries and human power was not needed in the country as machines mass produced goods in the city (industrialization) & the fenced off farm land (Enclosure Movement), caused people to move to the city for work (cities boomed).