Napoleon+Congress of Vienna Flashcards
the Consulate
- weak directory
- 3 Consuls
- legislative body had no power
NB Consul jobs
- command army and navy
- appoint and dismiss officials
- propose all laws
Concordat
agreement with pope
Plebiscite
= referendum in USA
coup d’état
seizure of gov’t
Napoleons Code
- applied to all areas in French Empire
- scholars combined and organized all laws
- uniform laws for all
Grand Empire Growth
annexed to France- Netherlands, Belgium, parts of Italy and Germany
Confed of Rhine
what is created when NB breaks up Holy Roman Empire
Continental System
issues blockade blocking their ports, stopping goods and people from coming or going and forbids any one in the empire to trade with them
Scorched Earth Policy
burned crops, supplies, shelter b/c russia drew france in russia
where Napoleon is banished the first time
Elba
Hundred Days Period
NB escapes Elba and becomes emperor again
Battle at Waterloo
FR and GB , GB win
NB abdicates again: Louis XVIII takes over
Prince Clemens von Metternich
Austria
wanted to restore status quo
Czar Alexander I
Russia
urged “holy alliance” of christian monarchs to suppress future revolutions
Wanted Poland
Lord Robert Castlereagh
GB
determined to prevent revivial of French Milt pwr = wants france and russia weak
Prince Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
France
played the other leaders against each other to get France accepted as an equal partner
Actions made:
- Redrew map of Europe
- added Belgium and Luxembourg to Holland=Netherlands
- gave russia lands along the rhine river
- “legitimacy”
Concert of Europe
peacekeeping unit
Problems:
AU,RU,PR,GB extend alliance into post war era
- nationalism
- redrew national boundaries without concern from national cultures
