French Revolution and Napoleon

Question 1

Tennis Court Oath

Answer 1

Oath taken by members of the French Estates General not to dissolved until they had created a constiution for France

Question 2

Bastille

Answer 2

The royal prison symbolizing the old regime that was destroyed in the French Revolution

Question 3

Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen

Answer 3

France’s revolutionary 1789 declaration of rights of stressing liberty, equality, and fraternity

Question 4

Civil Constituion of the Clergy

Answer 4

Members of the clergy would have to swear an oath of allegiance in order to get paid

• Half of the clergy in France denounced this oath

Question 5

sans-culottes

Answer 5

Working-class people of Paris during the French Revolution

Question 6

Jacobins

Answer 6

A radical political organization or club during the French Revolution

Question 7

Committee of Public Safety

Answer 7

Ruling committee of twelve leaders during the French Revolutionary period of the Terror

Question 8

Levee en masse

Answer 8

General call-up of all men, women, and children to serve the nation during the French Revolution

Question 9

Thermidorian Reaction

Answer 9

The overthrow of Robespierre and the radicals in July 1794, during the French Revolution

Question 10

Directory

Answer 10

The relatively conservative government during the last years of the French Revolution before Napoleon gained power

Question 11

plebiscite

Answer 11

A direct vote that allows the people to either accept or reject a proposed measure

Question 12

Napoleonic Code

Answer 12

The legal code introduced in France by Napoleon

• Generally affirmed the Enlightenment-inspired legal reforms
• Granted legal equality, careers for men
• Didn’t favor women
• Catered to middle class employers

Question 13

Continental System

Answer 13

Napoleon’s policy of preventing trade between continental Europe and Great Britain