French Revolution

Question 1

Weak, but well intentioned king of France prior to the French Revolution

Answer 1

Louis XVI

Question 2

Czar of Russia who represented his country at the Congress of Vienna

Answer 2

Alexander I

Question 3

King of France after the conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars

Answer 3

Louis VXIII

Question 4

member of the French middle class

Answer 4

bourgoisie

Question 5

persons with no extreme views who may side with either conservatives or radicals depending upon the issue

Answer 5

moderates

Question 6

Diplomat that represented Austria at the Congress of Vienna

Answer 6

Metternich

Question 7

the draft

Answer 7

conscription

Question 8

One of the great military and political leaders of the world, he became Emperor of France in 1804 and lost Waterloo in 1815

Answer 8

Napoleon Bonaparte

Question 9

persons who do not want to change existing conditions

Answer 9

conservatives

Question 10

pride in and love of one’s country

Answer 10

nationalism

Question 11

an overthrow of state; a sudden change in government

Answer 11

coup d’état

Question 12

Leader of the Peninsular Campaign and the general who led Napoleon’s defeat

Answer 12

Duke of Wellington

Question 13

procedure used to submit a new constitution to the people for a vote

Answer 13

Plebiscite

Question 14

system of government in which absolute monarchs ruled according to the principles of the enlightenment

Answer 14

enlightened despotism

Question 15

consisted of the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church

Answer 15

First Estate

Question 16

persons who want to institute far reaching changes

Answer 16

radicals

Question 17

British Admirial killed in the British victory of Trafalgar

Answer 17

Horatio Nelson

Question 18

compensation paid to a country for damages inflicted on it

Answer 18

indemnity

Question 19

extremists who not only oppose change, but would like to turn back the clock before certain changes occured

Answer 19

reactionaries

Question 20

principle after the Napoleonic wars of restoring former ruling families to their thrones

Answer 20

legitimacy

Question 21

consisted of the nobility

Answer 21

Second Estate

Question 22

Leader of the Committee of Public Safety and one of the chief architects of the Reign of Terror who was himself beheaded

Answer 22

Maximillian Robespierre

Question 23

political movement stressing indvidual rights and the rule of law rather than the rule of monarchs

Answer 23

Liberalism

Question 24

Diplomat who represented Great Britain at the Congress of Vienna

Answer 24

Lord Castleraugh

Question 25

King of France during War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years’ War (French and Indian War)

Answer 25

Louis XV

Question 26

consisted of the peasantry and bourgeoisie

Answer 26

Third Estate

Question 27

Diplomat that represented France at the Congress of Vienna

Answer 27

Talleyrand