French Revolution

Question 1

Abdicate

Answer 1

To step down from power

-Napoleon

Question 2

Deficit Spending

Answer 2

Government spending more than it takes in

Question 3

Plebiscite

Answer 3

a vole/ballot would give people after he won

-Napoleon

Question 4

Sans-culottes

Answer 4

working class men and women
-pushed for radical action

Question 5

Suffrage

Answer 5

the right to vote

Question 6

Blockade

Answer 6

shutting off parts

-Britain was shut off

Question 7

Bourgeoisie

Answer 7

middle class

-3rd estate

Question 8

Emigre

Answer 8

nobels, clergy

Question 9

Nationalism

Answer 9

pride in ones country

Question 10

Congress of Vienna

Answer 10

restore stability and order in Europe

Question 11

Declaration of the Rights of Man

Answer 11

French independence with property

Question 12

Napoleonic Code

Answer 12

enlightenment ideas

Question 13

Nationalism

Answer 13

pride in ones country

-helped to defeat Napoleon

Question 14

Legitimacy

Answer 14

restoring original monarchs

Question 15

Republic

Answer 15

a government ruled not by a monarch

-many sans-culottes demanded this

Question 16

Scorched earth policy

Answer 16

Russians burnt/poisioned left over food

Question 17

Quadruple Alliance

Answer 17

Prussia, Spain and England

Question 18

Guerrilla Warfare

Answer 18

hit and run raids

-Spanish did this agains the French.

Question 19

Continetal System

Answer 19

russia didn’t like so left causing Napoleon to attack

Question 20

Consulate

Answer 20

the French government

Question 21

Committee of Public Safety

Answer 21

had almost absolut power to save the revolution

-created from threats from France

Question 22

Secular

Answer 22

nonreligious

-convention tried to de-christianize France when it created this calander.

Question 23

Jacobins

Answer 23

radical group

-convention was given to them and a rival group

Question 24

Tennis Court Oath

Answer 24

swore “never to separate and to meet where the circumstances ight sound and just constitution.”

Question 25

National Assembly

Answer 25

Produced constutution

Question 26

Battle of Waterloo

Answer 26

Napoleon and opposing armies met there in a day-long battle - Napoleon was then sent to a lonely island in South Atlantic - June 18, 1815

Question 27

Napoleon

Answer 27

"I grew up on the field of Battle" | "and a man such as I am comes little for the like of a million men."

Question 28

Jacques Louis David

Answer 28

pointed Napoleon's coronation

Question 29

Maximilien Robespierre

Answer 29

"It is necessary to stifle... government in time of revolution is both virtue and terron."

Question 30

Olympe de Gougce

Answer 30

"Woman is born free, her rights same" | "all citizens, being equal in states eyes on equally eligible."

Question 31

Clemens von Meternich

Answer 31

cuanted to restore statusquo | -Prim minister

Question 32

Louis XVI

Answer 32

"It is a revolt?" | No sire, it is a revolution."

Question 33

Duck of Wellington

Answer 33

British General

Question 34

Jacques Necker

Answer 34

Finachel advisor | -reduced spending, reform government and abolished tarrifs

Question 35

Describe the three divisions of France's social structure before the French Revolution.

Answer 35

1. nuns, monks and priests. 2. noble knights, army, courts and church 3. merchants, bankers and manufactures

Question 36

List the main events in the rise and fall of Napoleon.

Answer 36

``` Rise: 1.captured most of Northern Italy 2. set up 3-man gov. = consulate 3. became empire of French by plebiscite Fall: *loss empire title 1. defeat in Battle of the Nations at Leipzig 2.sent to Elba and St. Helena 3Loss at Battle of Waterloo ```

Question 37

How did and why did the Congress of Vienna try to resore the balance of power in Europe?

Answer 37

- Put major poewrs/countries by France | - So if one gets stronger the others would easily attack it so they are equal again.