Brainscape's Knowledge GenomeTM

Browse over 1 million classes created by top students, professors, publishers, and experts.


See full index

World History Unit 2 > Chapter 7 > Flashcards

Chapter 7 Flashcards

You may prefer our related Brainscape-certified flashcards:
AP® U.S. History flashcards World History 101 flashcards European History 101 flashcards AP® European History flashcards AP® World History flashcards World History 102 flashcards U.S. History 101 flashcards U.S. History 102 flashcards
1
Q

The system of feudalism left over from Middle Ages

A

Old Regime

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

Large social classes

A

Estates

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

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

A

Louis XVI

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

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

A

Marie Antoinette

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

An assembly of representatives from all three estates

A

Estates-General

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

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

A

National Assembly

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

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

A

Tennis Court Oath

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

A wave of senseless panic in France

A

Great Fear

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

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

A

Declaration of the rights of man

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

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

A

Legislative Assembly

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

Nobles and others who had fled France during the peasant uprising

A

Émigrés

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

Radical group made of Parisian wage-earners and small shopkeepers

A

Sans-culottes

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

A beheading machine

A

Guillotine

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

Caused reign of terror, leader of committee of public safety

A

Maximilien Robespierre

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

COMMITTEE established during French Revolution to identify enemies of the republic

A

Committee of public safety

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

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

A

Reign of terror

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

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

A

Napoleon Bonaparte

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

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

A

Coup d’etat

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

Vote of the people

A

Plebiscite

20
Q

Government run public schools

A

Lycées

21
Q

Agreement

A

Concordat

22
Q

Napoleons comprehensive system of laws

A

Napoleonic code

23
Q

The only battle Napoleon lost against Britain

A

Battle of Trafalgar

24
Q

Forcible closing of ports

A

Blockade

25
Q

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

A

Continental System

26
Q

Bands of Spanish peasant fighters

A

Guerrillas

27
Q

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

A

Peninsular war

28
Q

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

A

Scorched-earth policy

29
Q

Battle in the village of __________, Belgium

A

Waterloo

30
Q

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

A

Hundred days

31
Q

Series of meetings in Vienna

A

Congress of Vienna

32
Q

Foreign minister of Austria

A

Klemens von Metternich

33
Q

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

A

Balance of power

34
Q

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

A

Legitimacy

35
Q

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

A

Concert of Europe

36
Q

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

A

Holy Alliance

37
Q

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

A

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

38
Q

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

A

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

39
Q

What political reforms resulted from the French Revolution?

A

Equal justice, freedom of religion, freedom of speech

40
Q

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

A

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

41
Q

What reforms did Napoleon introduce?

A

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

42
Q

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

A

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

43
Q

What factors led to Napoleon’s defeat in Russia?

A

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

44
Q

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

A

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

45
Q

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

A

French would not attack again, balance of power, legitimacy

46
Q

How did the Congress of Vienna ensure peace in Europe?

A

It created new nations, Concert of Europe was created.

World History Unit 2 (4 decks)

Brainscape helps you reach your goals faster, through stronger study habits.
© 2025 Bold Learning Solutions. Terms and Conditions