Unit 5

Question 0

Facts about he compte rendu

Answer 0

“Report to the king” by Jacques necker
Abolish aristocratic pension
Ignore American Revolution debt

Question 1

Causes of the crisis leading up to the French Revolution

Answer 1

Not enough revenues for French monarch after 7yrs war

Question 2

Financial reforms of Charles calonne

Answer 2

Make taille universal to everyone who owns land

Transform corveé from work to money tax

Question 3

Grievances as according to cashiers de doleances

Answer 3

Tax exemptions, exclusive hunting, official currency, Versailles, regular meetings, mismanagement of church money

Question 4

Creation of the National Assembly

Answer 4

Made up of reform minded 1st and 2nd estate, and most of 3rd estate
Jin 20, 1789 tennis court oath

Question 5

Facts about he tennis court oath

Answer 5

June 20,1789

National Assembly not stop meeting until they draft a constitution

Question 6

Reasons for riots in winter 1788 and spring 1789

Answer 6

Increased bread prices
Louis XVI dismissed Jacques necker
Mobilizing royal troops

Question 7

Facts about and significance of the storming of the Bastille

Answer 7

July 14th 1709

Start of the French Revolution

Question 8

The great fear

Answer 8

Rumor that the royals would take peasants food
Peasants react violently
Shows that people are tense and ready to act violently

Question 9

Night of August 4th

Answer 9

Feudalism is abolished

No more anciem regime

Question 10

“Declaration of the rights of man and citizen”

Answer 10

Aug 27,1789
Passed/written by the National Assembly
Give rights to those who understand govnt.
Land owners, etc

Question 11

Jean Paul Marat

Answer 11

“The friend of the people” newspaper

Spread radical ideas and rumors

Question 12

The October days

Answer 12

Women or working class (over 60,000) March to Versailles and demand the head of the queen and for royal family to come back to Paris with them

Question 13

National constituent assembly and preferred form of govnt

Answer 13

La

Question 14

Characteristics and facts about the constitution of 1791

Answer 14

Established constitutional monarchy, laws originate with legislative body (war and peace, veto)

Question 15

“Declaration of the rights of women”

Answer 15

By: olympe de gouge
Demanded that women should be treated as citizens
Addressed to Marie Antoinette

Question 16

Examples of economic reforms during the Reconstruction of France

Answer 16

Assignats, metric system. Suppressed guilds, liberated grain trade

Question 17

Émigrés

Answer 17

Aristocratic self-exiles

Leaving France, but wanting to come back when they have their rights back

Question 18

Facts about the sans culottes and their goals and methods

Answer 18

Working class
Wanted to end food shortages
Civic equality
Republicans
Without the aristocratic tights

Question 19

The September massacres

Answer 19

Storm prisons to find anti- revolutionaries
Over 1200 ppl
Mostly peasants ^ killed
Emphasized hysteria

Question 20

The declaration of pillnitz

Answer 20

Leopold II and Fred. William II.

If king/royals of France are harmed, Austria and Prussia will attack France

Question 21

The national convention and its actions

Answer 21

Declared France a republic

Question 22

Countries at war with France by 1793

Answer 22

First coalition: France, Austria, Britain, Spain, sardeña, Netherlands, Prussia

Question 23

Levée en masse

Answer 23

Secular ideal of nationhood and self sacrifice (soldiers)

Question 24

The committee of public safety and its purpose

Answer 24

12 members
All staunch republican
1. To eliminate the conservative republicans (Girondists)
2. Ceiling on prices (food more affordable)
3. Levée en masse (first citizen based army)

Question 25

Facts about the reign of terror

Answer 25

A radical period in which the convention sought to defend the French Republic
Robespierre in charge

Question 26

Law of 22 prairial

Answer 26

Revolutionary tribunals don’t even take place, no trial, no process, no evidence
Executions double per day

Question 27

Bands of Jesus and the white terror

Answer 27

Execution of former terrorists (similar to sept. Massacres)

Lyons, Toulon, marseilles (bands)

Question 28

Results of coup of 18 Brumaire

Answer 28

Call Napoleon to overthrow the directory, constitution of year VIII
Abbé seiyes
Napoleon became first consul

Question 29

The battle of abukir

Answer 29

1898- weaken France in Egypt

Horatio Nelson leads British

Question 30

Ways in which Napoleon attempted to suppress foreign and domestic opposition

Answer 30

Foreign: Treaty of luneville (pulls Austria out of war), treaty of Amiens (truce with Great Britain)
Domestic: grants pardon to radical revolutionaries, equal opportunities, centralized administration, secret police, duke of enghein (bourbon executed), peace with church, concordat of 1801, napoleonic code

Question 31

The concordat of 1801, facts, purpose, results

Answer 31

Required refractory clergy and jurying clergy to resign

New clergy paid by govnt

Question 32

Facts about the napoleonic code

Answer 32

Civil code of 1804
Standardized all French law
Feudalism still abolished 
Protected property rights
Reaffirmed merit privilege
No workers unions
Male supremacy

Question 33

Facts regarding Napoleon becoming the empower of France

Answer 33

1804

“The coronation of Napoleon” by Jacques Louis David.

Question 34

The battle of trafalgar

Answer 34

1805
Horatio Nelson
British secure the sea

Question 35

Prime minister of Britain during the French rev

Answer 35

William Pitt the younger

Question 36

Treaty of Tilsit

Answer 36

Prussia loses 1/2 eastern territory (near Russia)
Prussia forced to be French ally
Czar Alexander the first= secret French ally

Question 37

Facts about the continental system

Answer 37

Aka Milan decree
Forces countries on continent to not trade with England, ends up being more detrimental to the continent than to Britain, more resentment towards France, created smuggling