The French Revolution and Napoleon - Chapter 23

Question 1

System of feudalism

Answer 1

Old Regime

Question 2

Social class of people

Answer 2

Estate

Question 3

Weak king who came to French throne in 1774

Answer 3

Louis XVI

Question 4

Unpopular queen; wife of Louis XVI

Answer 4

Marie Antoinette

Question 5

Assembly of representatives from all three estates

Answer 5

Estates-General

Question 6

French congress established by representatives of the Third Estate

Answer 6

National Assembly

Question 7

Promise made by Third Estate representatives to draw up a new constitution

Answer 7

Tennis Court Oath

Question 8

Wave of panic

Answer 8

Great Fear

Question 9

Assembly that replaced the National Assembly in 1791

Answer 9

Legislative Assembly

Question 10

Nobles and others who left France during the peasant uprisings and who hoped to come back to restore the old system

Answer 10

Émigrés

Question 11

Radical group o Parisian wage-earners

Answer 11

sans-culottes

Question 12

Member of the Jacobi Club, a radical political organization

Answer 12

Jacobin

Question 13

Machine for beheading people

Answer 13

Guillotine

Question 14

Revolutionary leader who tried to wipe out every trace of France’s past monarchy and nobility

Answer 14

Maximilien Robespierre

Question 15

Period of Robespierre’s rule

Answer 15

Reign of Terror

Question 16

Military leader who seized power in France

Answer 16

Napoleon Bonaparte

Question 17

A sudden takeover of a government

Answer 17

coup d’état

Question 18

Vote by the people

Answer 18

Plebiscite

Question 19

Government-run public school

Answer 19

lycée

Question 20

Agreement

Answer 20

Concordat

Question 21

Complete set of laws set up by Napoleon that eliminated many injustices

Answer 21

Napoleonic Code

Question 22

British defeat of Napoleon’s forces at sea

Answer 22

Battle of Trafalgar

Question 23

Forced closing of ports

Answer 23

Blockade

Question 24

Napoleon’s policy of preventing trade and communication between Great Britain and other European nations

Answer 24

Napoleon System

Question 25

Spanish peasant fighter

Answer 25

Guerilla

Question 26

War that Napoleon fought in Spain

Answer 26

Peninsula War

Question 27

Policy of burning fields and slaughtering livestock so that enemy troops would find nothing to eat

Answer 27

Scorched-earth Policy

Question 28

Battle in Belgium that was Napoleon’s final defeat

Answer 28

Waterloo

Question 29

Napoleon’s last bid for power, which ended at Waterloo

Answer 29

Hundred Days

Question 30

Meetings in Vienna for the purpose of restoring order to Europe

Answer 30

Congress of Vienna

Question 31

Key leader at the Congress of Vienna

Answer 31

Klemens von Metternich

Question 32

Condition in which no one country becomes a threat to the other

Answer 32

Balance of Power

Question 33

Bringing back to power the kings that Napoleon had driven out

Answer 33

Legitimacy

Question 34

League formed by Russia, Austria, and Prussia

Answer 34

Holy Alliance

Question 35

Series of alliances to help prevent revolution

Answer 35

Concert of Europe