French Revolution and Napoleon

Question 1

Ancien Regime

Answer 1

France prior to the French revolution

Question 2

Banalities

Answer 2

Fees that peasants were obligated to pay landlords for the use of the village mill, bakeshop, and winepress

Question 3

Bastille

Answer 3

The political prison and armory stormed on Jul 14, 1789, by Partisian city workers alarmed by the king’s concentration of troops as Versailles

Question 4

Cahier de doleances

Answer 4

List of grievances that each Estate drew up in preparation for the summoning of the Estates-General in 1789

Question 5

Code Napoleon

Answer 5

The codification and condensation of laws assuring legal equality and uniformity in France

Question 6

Committee of Public Safety

Answer 6

The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France, conducted foreign policy, and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795

Question 7

Concordat

Answer 7

Napoleon’s arrangement with Pope Pius VII to heal religious division if France with a united Catholic church under bishops appointed by the government

Question 8

Continental System

Answer 8

Napoleon’s efforts to block foreign trade with England by forbidding importation of British goods into Europe

Question 9

Corvees

Answer 9

Roadwork; an obligation of peasants to landowners

Question 10

Coup d’etat

Answer 10

Overthrow of those in power

Question 11

Declaration of Pillnitz

Answer 11

Austria an Prussia agreed to intervene in France to end the revolution with the unanimous agreement of the great powers

Question 12

Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

Answer 12

Document that embodied the liberal revolutionary ideals and general principles of the philosophes’ writings

Question 13

Directory

Answer 13

The five-man executive committee that ruled France inits own interests as a republic after Robespierre’s execution

Question 14

Estates General

Answer 14

The French national assembly summoned in 1789 to remedy the financial crisis and correct abuses of the ancien regime

Question 15

Great Fear

Answer 15

The panic and insecurity that struck French peasants in the summer of 1789 and led to their widespread destruction of manor houses and archives

Question 16

Jacobins

Answer 16

The dominant group in the National Convention in 1793 who replaced the Girondist. It was headed by Robespierre

Question 17

Law of the maximum

Answer 17

The fixing of prices on bread and other essentials under Robespierre’s rule

Question 18

Levee en masse

Answer 18

The creation under the Jacobins of a citizen army with support from young and old, heralding the emergence of modern warfare.

Question 19

Napoleon Bonaparte

Answer 19

Consul and later emperor of France, who established several of the reforms (Code Napoleon) of the French Revolution during his dictatorial rule

Question 20

Night of August 4, 1789

Answer 20

Date of the declaration by liberal noblemen of the National Assembly at a secret meeting to abolish the feudal regime in France

Question 21

Parlement

Answer 21

Law court staffed by nobles that could register or refuse to register a king’s edict

Question 22

Peninsular war

Answer 22

Napoleon’s long, drawn out war with Spain

Question 23

Robespierre

Answer 23

Jacobin leader during the Reign of Terror

Question 24

Sans culottes

Answer 24

A reference to Parisian workers who wore loose-fitting trousers rather than the tight-fitting breeches worn by aristocratic men

Question 25

Taille

Answer 25

A direct tax from which most French nobles were exempt

Question 26

Tennis Court Oath

Answer 26

Declaration mainly by members of the Third Estate not to disband until they had drafted a constitution for France

Question 27

Treaty of Tilsit

Answer 27

Agreement between Napoleon and Czar Alexander I in which Russia became an ally of France and Napoleon took over the lands of Prussia west of the Elbe as well as the Polish Provinces