Chapter 7

Question 1

The system of feudalism left over from Middle Ages

Answer 1

Old Regime

Question 2

Large social classes

Answer 2

Estates

Question 3

1774 France king who was very weak and borrowed a lot of money during American Revolution

Answer 3

Louis XVI

Question 4

Louis XVI’s wife who refused to wear tight clothing styles and instead wore a loose cotton dress

Answer 4

Marie Antoinette

Question 5

An assembly of representatives from all three estates

Answer 5

Estates-General

Question 6

Third Estate name; they passed laws and reformed in the name of French people

Answer 6

National Assembly

Question 7

Pledge made by third estate delegates which stated: to stay until they had drawn up a new constitution

Answer 7

Tennis Court Oath

Question 8

A wave of senseless panic in France

Answer 8

Great Fear

Question 9

Document that states men are born and remain free and equal in rights

Answer 9

Declaration of the rights of man

Question 10

Assembly that had the power to create laws and approve or prevent any War the king declared

Answer 10

Legislative Assembly

Question 11

Nobles and others who had fled France during the peasant uprising

Answer 11

Émigrés

Question 12

Radical group made of Parisian wage-earners and small shopkeepers

Answer 12

Sans-culottes

Question 13

A beheading machine

Answer 13

Guillotine

Question 14

Caused reign of terror, leader of committee of public safety

Answer 14

Maximilien Robespierre

Question 15

COMMITTEE established during French Revolution to identify enemies of the republic

Answer 15

Committee of public safety

Question 16

Period when maximilien ruled France as dictator and thousand of people were executed

Answer 16

Reign of terror

Question 17

Man recognized as one of the world’s greatest military geniuses, leader of France who had a plan to become dictator

Answer 17

Napoleon Bonaparte

Question 18

seizure of power, known as coup from the French phrase…

Answer 18

Coup d’etat

Question 19

Vote of the people

Answer 19

Plebiscite

Question 20

Government run public schools

Answer 20

Lycées

Question 21

Agreement

Answer 21

Concordat

Question 22

Napoleons comprehensive system of laws

Answer 22

Napoleonic code

Question 23

The only battle Napoleon lost against Britain

Answer 23

Battle of Trafalgar

Question 24

Forcible closing of ports

Answer 24

Blockade

Question 25

System that was supposed to make continental Europe more self-sufficient

Answer 25

Continental System

Question 26

Bands of Spanish peasant fighters

Answer 26

Guerrillas

Question 27

Conflict between Spanish and British fought to drive Napoleon’s troops out of Spain

Answer 27

Peninsular war

Question 28

Burning grain fields and slaughtering livestock so as to leave nothing behind that the emery could eat

Answer 28

Scorched-earth policy

Question 29

Battle in the village of __________, Belgium

Answer 29

Waterloo

Question 30

Period when Napoleon made his last bid of power, deposing the French king and again becoming emperor of France

Answer 30

Hundred days

Question 31

Series of meetings in Vienna

Answer 31

Congress of Vienna

Question 32

Foreign minister of Austria

Answer 32

Klemens von Metternich

Question 33

Political situation in which no one nation is powerful enough to pose a threat to others

Answer 33

Balance of power

Question 34

Agreeing that as many as possible of the rulers whom Napoleon had driven out of their thrones should be restored into power

Answer 34

Legitimacy

Question 35

Series of alliances devised by Metternich, assuring that nations would help one another if any revolution broke out

Answer 35

Concert of Europe

Question 36

League of European nations formed by leaders of Russia, Austria, and Prussia after congress of Vienna

Answer 36

Holy Alliance

Question 37

Why were the members of the Third Estate dissatisfied with their way of life under the Old Regime?

Answer 37

Urban workers had a very low pay and would starve if bread prices rose and they were taxed on everything

Question 38

Why was the fall of the Bastille important to the French People?

Answer 38

it was a great symbolic act of revolution to the french people, it symbolized the strength of the Revolution.

Question 39

What political reforms resulted from the French Revolution?

Answer 39

Equal justice, freedom of religion, freedom of speech

Question 40

What was the Reign of Terror, and how did it end?

Answer 40

the period of the French Revolution when thousands of people were killed for affiliation with nobles, Maximilien was beheaded.

Question 41

What reforms did Napoleon introduce?

Answer 41

goverment ruled public school system called the lycees, napolianic code,a national banking system

Question 42

What steps did Napoleon take to create an empire in Europe?

Answer 42

First Napoleon gained public fame through military feats, then dissolved the Directory with a coup, and then became the First Consul, and finally Dictator.

Question 43

What factors led to Napoleon's defeat in Russia?

Answer 43

There troops were starving, sick from the cold, Russian raiders constantly attacked them, and both the British and Prussian Guerrilla attacks.

Question 44

Why were the European allies able to defeat Napoleon in 1814 and again in 1815?

Answer 44

European allies were able to defeat Napoleon's armies had been hastily filled with untrained soldiers.

Question 45

What were Metternich's three goals at the Congress of Vienna?

Answer 45

French would not attack again, balance of power, legitimacy

Question 46

How did the Congress of Vienna ensure peace in Europe?

Answer 46

It created new nations, Concert of Europe was created.