C. 19.2 wor-def (Fr.Rev)

Question 1

The Directory

Answer 1

used military force to put down uprisings. They also annulled elections when they didn’t like the results. Despite these struggles, they did help France to recover somewhat from the Terror and set the stage for future governments.

Question 2

Napoleon Bonaparte

Answer 2

played a key role in the French Revolution (1789–99), served as first consul of France (1799–1804), and was the first emperor of France (1804–14/15). Widely considered one of the greatest military generals in history.

Question 3

Pope Pius VII

Answer 3

1815, Napoleon Bonaparte and __ signed an agreement called the Concordat, which was an agreement between the French state and the Catholic Church that reconciled the Church with the anti-religious policies established during the French Revolution.

Question 4

Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson

Answer 4

a British flag officer in the Royal Navy. His inspirational leadership, grasp of strategy, and unconventional tactics brought about a number of decisive British naval victories during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

Question 5

Czar/Tsar Alexander I (Romanov)

Answer 5

died December 1 [November 19], 1825, Taganrog), emperor of Russia (1801–25), who alternately fought and befriended Napoleon I during the Napoleonic Wars but who ultimately (1813–15) helped form the coalition that defeated the emperor of the French.

Question 6

Arthur Wellesley

Answer 6

accomplished his most monumental feat, and that which he is most known for today, by defeating Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo.

Question 7

Klemens von Metternich

Answer 7

As the organizer of the Congress of Vienna (1814–15), he was largely responsible for the policy of balance of power in Europe to ensure the stability of European governments. After 1815 he remained firmly opposed to liberal ideas and revolutionary movements.

Question 8

Napoleonic Code

Answer 8

made the authority of men over their families stronger, deprived women of any individual rights, and reduced the rights of illegitimate children. All male citizens were also granted equal rights under the law and the right to religious dissent, but colonial slavery was reintroduced.

Question 9

Concordat of 1801

Answer 9

agreement reached on July 15, 1801, between Napoleon Bonaparte and papal and clerical representatives in both Rome and Paris, defining the status of the Roman Catholic Church in France and ending the breach caused by the church reforms and confiscations enacted during the French Revolution

Question 10

Grand Empire

Answer 10

Napoleon now had a free hand to reorganize Europe and numerous relatives to install on the thrones of his satellite kingdoms. The result was known as the __

Question 11

Continental System

Answer 11

inaugurated by the Berlin decrees of 21 November 1806, was meant to prohibit all trade, even by neutral countries, with Britain, the nation that Napoleon derisively referred to as ‘an island of shopkeepers,’ thereby sealing it off from continental Europe.

Question 12

Battle of Waterloo

Answer 12

fought on Sunday 18 June 1815, near Waterloo. A French army under the command of Napoleon was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition

Question 13

Elba & St. Helena

Answer 13

Islands where Napoleon was exiled to

Question 14

Congress of Vienna

Answer 14

a series of international diplomatic meetings to discuss and agree upon a possible new layout of the European political and constitutional order after the downfall of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte