French Revolution & Napoleon

Question 0

Banalities

Answer 0

Fees that peasants paid landlords

Question 1

Ancien Regime

Answer 1

Old regime; France prior to the Revolution

Question 2

Bastille

Answer 2

Medieval prison and armory stormed on July 4, 1789 by Parisians worried about the Kings concentration of troops at Versailles

Question 3

Cahier de Doleance

Answer 3

Lists of grievances from each estate to bring to the king during the meeting of the Estates General

Question 4

Code Napoleon (civil code of 1804)

Answer 4

Codification and condensation of laws assuring equality and uniformity

Question 5

Committee of Public Safety

Answer 5

Leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France conducted foreign policy and centralized authority from 1792-1795

Question 6

Concordat

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(1801) Napoleon agreed with pope pius II to heal religious division within France with church appointed bishops

Question 7

Continental System

Answer 7

Napoleons System to block trade with England

Question 8

Corvees

Answer 8

Roadworks; obligation of peasants to landowners

Question 9

Coup d’état

Answer 9

Overthrow of those in power

Question 10

Declaration of Pillnitz

Answer 10

(1791) Austria and Prussia agreed to invade France if other nations aid them

Question 11

Directory

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(1795-1799) five man executive committee that ruled France as a republic after Robespierre

Question 12

Estates General

Answer 12

Summoned on 1789 to remedy the financial crisis and correct the abuses of the ancien regime

Question 13

Great Fear

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Panic and insecurity that struck French peasants in the summer of 1789

Question 14

Jacobins

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Dominant group of national convention of 1793 who replaced Girondists. Headed by Robespierre

Question 15

Law of the maximum

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Fixing of prices of bread and essentials under Robespierre

Question 16

Levee en masse

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Under the Jacobins, a citizen army with support from young and old

Question 17

Napoleon Bonaparte

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(1769-1821) consul then emperor of France who established reforms and conquered much of Europe

Question 18

Night of August 4, 1789

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Declaration of liberal noblemen of National Assembly to abolish feudal regime

Question 19

Parlement

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Law court staffed by nobles that could register or refuse to register a kings edict

Question 20

Peninsular war

Answer 20

(1808-1813) napoleons long and drawn out war with Spain

Question 21

Robespierre

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(1758-1794) jacobin leader during the Reign of Terror

Question 22

Sans culottes

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Reference to Parisian workers who wore trousers rather be hay breeches

Question 23

Taille

Answer 23

Direct tax from Middle Ages that nobles were exempt from

Question 24

Tennis court oath

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Declaration by members of the third estate not to disband until they drafted a new constitution

Question 25

Treaty of Tilsit

Answer 25

(1807) agreement between Napoleon and Czar Alexandrite I in which Russia became an ally of France and Napoleon took over Prussia west of the Elbe