Ch 18 Test

Question 0

Napoleanic code

Answer 0

Embodied enlightenment principles such as the equality of all citizens, religious toleration, and the abolition of feudalism

Question 1

Robespierre

Answer 1

Lawyer and politician, wanted to abolish slavery and promoted religious toleration

Question 2

Marquis de Lafayette

Answer 2

“Hero of two worlds” fought alongside George Washington in the American revolution

Question 3

Continental system

Answer 3

Closed European ports to British goods

Question 4

Ancien régime

Answer 4

Old order

Question 5

Bourgeoisie

Answer 5

The middle class

Question 6

Guerrilla warfare

Answer 6

Hit-and-run raids

Question 7

Guillotine

Answer 7

Device used during the reign of terror to execute thousands by beheading

Question 8

Olympe de gouges

Answer 8

Female journalist who demanded equal rights for women

Question 9

Plebiscite

Answer 9

Popular vote by ballot

Question 10

What estates make up the estates general

Answer 10

Representatives of the three estates

Question 11

Jacques Neckar, and Louis 16

Answer 11

A financial expert and advisor. Urged Louis 16 to reduce court spending and was dismissed after he proposed taxing the first and second estates

Question 12

What resulted from the estates general

Answer 12

Tension between the estates, third estate takes the Tennis Court Oath

Question 13

Declaration of the rights of man and the citizen

Answer 13

All men were born and remain free and equal in rights. They enjoy natural rights to liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression

Question 14

National Assembly

Answer 14

Representatives from the third estate

Question 15

What kind of government was the national convention

Answer 15

Republic

Question 16

Reign of terror

Answer 16

1793-1794 suspected persons would be executed often by the guillotine

Question 17

Directory phase of the revolution

Answer 17

A period of reaction against extremism

Question 18

Jacobins

Answer 18

A revolutionary political club, mostly middle-class lawyers or intellectuals

Question 19

Girondins

Answer 19

In the National Assembly and wanted to end monarchy

Question 20

Republic of virtue

Answer 20

Robespierre believed France could achieve a “republic of virtue” only through the use of terror, “criminals lose their heads”

Question 21

What countries did Napoleon conquer

Answer 21

Most of northern Italy, forced Spain to return Louisiana territory

Question 22

What battle tactics did the Russians use to defeat Napoleon

Answer 22

The retreated east and burned villages. Scorched earth policy left French hungry and cold. Russian winter

Question 23

Congress of Vienna

Answer 23

Assembly of European leaders that met after the napoleonic era to piece Europe back together

Question 24

Principal of legitamicy

Answer 24

Principal by which monarchies that had been unseated by the French Revolution or Napoleon were restored

Question 25

Tennis court oath

Answer 25

Delegates from third estate gathered on tennis court and swore "never to separate and to meet wherever the circumstances might require until we have established a sound and just constitution"

Question 26

Why did the women march on Versailles

Answer 26

They wanted the king to return to Paris

Question 27

Declaration of pilnitz

Answer 27

King of Prussian and emperor of Austria issued the document in which the two monarchs threatened to intervene to protect the French monarchy.

Question 28

Who granted all male citizens the right to vote in 1790

Answer 28

National Assembly put the church under state control

Question 29

What did Robespierre think is the only way to achieve republic of virtue

Answer 29

Through the use of terror

Question 30

Under what authority did the reign of terror work

Answer 30

Robespierre committee of public safety

Question 31

Consulate under Napoleon

Answer 31

Overthrew the weak directory and set up a three-man governing board known as the consulate

Question 32

Where was Napoleon defeated

Answer 32

Waterloo, Belgium

Question 33

Goals of the congress of Vienna

Answer 33

They wanted to restore stability and order in Europe after years of war