Napoleon: Consulate and Empire

Question 1

What were the main features of the constitution of 1799?

Question 2

Was the constitution based on representative government?

Question 3

How was power distributed during the Consulate?

Question 4

Why did the Consulship give way to the Empire?

Question 5

How did Napoleon deal with potential rivals?

Question 6

What measures were taken to establish financial stability? To what extent were they successful?

Question 7

What measures did Napoleon take to create a new currency?

Question 8

What were the main changes Napoleon made to the judicial system?

Question 9

How did prefects and the police control opposition?

Question 10

What did the Civil Code achieve?

Question 11

How did Napoleon enforce censorship and propaganda?

Question 12

What did Napoleon consider to be the purpose of education?

Question 13

Why did Napoleon agree the Concordat?

Question 14

What was the concordat?

Question 15

What made up the Napoleonic Empire and why was it created?

Question 16

How successful militarily was Napoleon following his coup d’état?

Question 17

Why did the war resume in 1803 and what was the

outcome of Napoleon’s plan to invade Britain?

Question 18

How significant were the victories of 1805–7?

Question 19

What was the extent of Napoleon’s achievement by 1807?

Question 20

What factors contributed to Napoleon’s military success between 1803 and 1807?

Question 21

Why and with what consequences did Napoleon become involved in the Peninsular War?

Question 22

Why did Napoleon invade Russia in 1812?

Question 23

What were the consequences of the retreat from Moscow?

Question 24

Why did Napoleon’s invasion of Russia fail?

Question 25

How was Napoleon finally defeated?

Question 26

To what extent did Napoleon preserve the Revolution?

Question 27

To what extent had Napoleon transformed France by 1815?