French Revolution/Napoleon

Question 1

monarchy

Answer 1

divine right, leader because a higher power had appointed them, family of rulers, throne passed down

Question 2

nation state

Answer 2

led by the people, like a democracy

Question 3

consequences of the Industrial Revolution

Answer 3

• enabled humans to become rich off of new industry
• peasants streamed into cities looking for work
• passion for change

Question 4

Clergy

Answer 4

priests, bishops, connected to the church, seen as high up on the social pole

Question 5

nobility

Answer 5

owned land, land=power

Question 6

third estate

Answer 6

peasants, workers, middle class

Question 7

what inspired the French Revolution?

Answer 7

the American Revolution

Question 7

July 14th, 1789: Storming of Bastille

Answer 7

• revolutionaries stormed Bastille, a symbol of the kings power

Question 8

what does the revolution lead to?

Answer 8

• abolished noble privilege and centuries’ old monarchy
• led to a representative government
• expanded right to vote for men
• women able to divorce and gain inheritance
• led to development of constitution

Question 9

Jan. 21, 1793: King Louis beheaded

Answer 9

• beheaded in front of Notre Dame Cathedral
• angers Austrian emperor (his daughter Marie was married to Louis)
• triggers the French Revolution

Question 10

Austria attacks France

Answer 10

• Marie Antoinette beheaded
• the Convention becomes head of the revolution for the French

Question 11

The Convention

Answer 11

• headed by the Jacobins
• nominated people to defend France

Question 12

Maximillian Robespierre

Answer 12

• leader of the Jacobins
• a liberal, eventually became heavily radicalized
• “in order for France to live, Louis must die!”
• died in 1794 by beheading after being shot in mouth

Question 13

Committee of Public Safety

Answer 13

• Max Robespierre is head of the Committee
• becomes highly aggressive
• “virtue through terror”

Question 14

Napoleon Bonaparte

Answer 14

• self made ruler
• exceptional military commander
• conquered Egypt
• 1799: seizes power
• in France, brings back slavery, Catholic influence, misogynist

Question 15

1812 invasion of Russia

Answer 15

• after Russian czar refuses to become an ally, Napoleon attempts to invade Moscow
• fails

Question 16

1814: Napoleon is captured

Answer 16

• says he will leave political power, leaves, comes back and seizes France, officially defeated in 1815 at battle of Waterloo, back to the monarchy system

Question 17

Jacobins

Answer 17

French left wing radicals, led by Robespierre, ushered in the Reign of Terror