Napoloen And The Congress Of Vienna

Question 1

Coup d’etat

Answer 1

A sudden seizure of political power

Question 2

Lycée

Answer 2

Government run schools in France initially created to train young men for positions as government officals

Question 3

Plebiscite

Answer 3

A direct vote in which a countries people have the opportunity to approve or reject a proposal

Question 4

Coronation

Answer 4

Event at which Napoleon took the crown from the Pope and crown himself

Question 5

Concordat

Answer 5

Formal agreement between Napoleon and the Pope. It rejected church influence in French politics but, acknowledged Catholicism as the traditional “faith of Frenchmen”

Question 6

Invasion of Russia 1812

Answer 6

The action of Napoleon’s that caused the greatest human losses

Question 7

Britain

Answer 7

Geographic advantage of being an island help this location to revisits conquest by Napoleon. He attempted to cut it off by blockade

Question 8

Trafalgar

Answer 8

Britain greatly weakened the French navy at this Battle

Question 9

Saint Domingue

Answer 9

resistance here led Napoleon to focus his empire in Europe

Question 10

Continental system

Answer 10

Napoleon’s policy to make continental Europe more self-sufficient and destroy Britain’s commercial enconomy

Question 11

Louisiana Purchase

Answer 11

Sold to help fund Napoleon’s European campaigns

Question 12

Scorched Earth

Answer 12

Russian practice of burning fields and slaughtering livestock to prevent invading troop from having them

Question 13

Peninsular War

Answer 13

Started by Napoleon to enforce his Continental system policy

Question 14

Napoleonic Code

Answer 14

Uniform set of laws adopted by France (and other locations) which eliminated many injustices; although it did limit some liberties in achieve order

Question 15

Balance of Power

Answer 15

A goal of the Congress of Vienna

Question 16

Elba

Answer 16

Location off the coast of Italy where Napoleon was exiled in 1814

Question 17

Waterloo

Answer 17

Napoleon’s final defeated by the British

Question 18

St. Helena

Answer 18

Location in the Atlantic Ocean where Napoleon was exiled until his death in 1821

Question 19

Conservatism

Answer 19

The prevailing political ideology at the Congress of Vienna

Question 20

Legitimacy

Answer 20

Louis XVIII becoming King of France and reinstatement of other royal families to throne they possessed prior to Napoleon

Question 21

Metternich

Answer 21

Powerful foreign minister who was the main force behind the meeting of the five great powers at the congress of Vienna in 1815

Question 22

Nationalism

Answer 22

Effect resulting from Napoleons conquests and the political changes made at the Congress of Vienna

Question 23

Concert of Europe

Answer 23

Alliance that promised member countries would aid one another in the event of revolution

Question 24

Guerrilla Warfare

Answer 24

Loosely organized fighting force using non-traditional tactics on occupying or invading troops- “Hit and Run” disruptions

Question 25

Hundred Days

Answer 25

March-June 1815 when Napoleons escaped ELba and returned to power until his defeat at Waterloo

Question 26

Blockade

Answer 26

the use of troops to prevent commercial traffic from entering or leaving an area