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CLEP Western Civilization II: French Revolution And Napoleon
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1. Originally the National Assembly. 1792 mobs invade this and made it allow all men to vote. They also ended the monarchy.
Legislative Assembly
1793
1812
peasants
2. Prussia's king. Declaration of Pillnitz. said if the royalty was harmed he and Austria (Leopold) would attack France.
King Friederich Wilhelm II
Poland
Third Estate
Assembly of Notables
3. Was the Legislative Assembly. They ended the monarchy in France.
National Convention
Alien and Sedition Acts
Third Estate
1812
4. 'Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Female Citizen' equality in politics for both women and men.
Continental System
peasants
Olympe de Gouges
Jacobin Club
5. 1807. Russia and Napoleon for some land. by 1810 they no longer wanted this treaty.
Tennis Court Oath
Treaty of Tilsit
Nobles of the Robe
1812
6. Laws in the U.S. to somewhat keep French revolutionaries from immigrating to America.
Treaty of Tilsit
Alien and Sedition Acts
War of Austrian Succession
Olympe de Gouges
7. Countryside. wanted the monarchy.
Reign of Terror
Temple of Reason
Great Fear
Girondins
8. People who were not in the other two estates. merchants - peasants - and middle class. bourgeoisie.
Bastille
Jacobin Club
Nobles of the Sword
Third Estate
9. France helped Prussia which soon would become a threat. Britain came into the war because of France's help.
Olympe de Gouges
Vendee
War of Austrian Succession
Temple of Reason
10. Owned some land. paid a lot of the taxes and they also had to pay tithes.
National Assembly
Paris Commune
First Consul
peasants
11. Clergy. Did not pay any taxes.
National Convention
First Estate
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
Third Estate
12. Paris. did not want the monarchy.
Bastille
Mountain
guerrilla warfare
Jacobin Club
13. France's war effort against the other countries. Danton led this and Maximilien Robespierre did later. They made the first European national army. executed Marie Antoinette because she was against the revolution.
War of Austrian Succession
Vendee
Mountain
Committee of Public Safety
14. France was no longer constantly at war.
Treaty of Tilsit
1812
Committee of Public Safety
1815
15. The new name of the Third Estate.
Civil Code
First Estate
constitutional monarchy
National Assembly
16. Said all people were equal-'liberty - property - security - and resistance to oppression' rea. p 45 all the power was in the nation - not the people.
ancien regime
Civil Code
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Third Estate
17. Nobles were taking grain to scare the peseants into submission. Some peseants attacked - burning mansions - and killing some nobles.
Vendee
Prussia
Great Fear
Mountain
18. Louis sent more troops to Paris and the people attacked this prison. They killed the guards and carried their heads around the city.
1815
Bastille
Tennis Court Oath
constitutional monarchy
19. Louis XVI wanted him to support him in the revolution. Louis tried to sneak out of France but was caught. The rumor was that he had been kidnapped. (not a true rumor - he was arrested)
Paris Commune
guerrilla warfare
Thermidor
Leopold II
20. Luois XVI was killed by the new invention the Guillotine.
1793
guerrilla warfare
Bastille
Tennis Court Oath
21. Nobles of the word and nobles of the robe. few taxes.
Third Estate
Vendee
Second Estate
Continental System
22. Second estate. they bought their statuses like the parlements. ('positions in France's high courts') rea. p. 42
Prussia
Nobles of the Robe
Continental System
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
23. The best example of a country who had to reform after the war. this helped with the growth of nationalism in this country. 1814 had 270 -000 soldiers.
Prussia
Assembly of Notables
Second Estate
Bastille
24. 1787. called by Louis XVI. Wanted the first and second estates to agree on taxing the church and nobles. They refused. Banks stopped letting the king borrow money. 1788. King called for the Estate General.
Leopold II
Thermidorian Reaction
Assembly of Notables
1812
25. 'the end of radical revolution' 'Jacobins were purged from political groups' rea. p. 48 1795 a new constitution was written by the National Convention. Directory-5 men.
Continental System
Thermidorian Reaction
Third Estate
Legislative Assembly
26. Made the clergy promise that they would be loyal to the nation. Said that bishops would have to be elected by non-clergymen. 1/2 of the clergy would not sign the oath.
1793
Alien and Sedition Acts
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
Second Estate
27. Would not allow anyone to trade with Britain in order to ruin it.
Continental System
National Convention
Temple of Reason
constitutional monarchy
28. Led by Danton. executed many people who were dangerous to the revolution.
Third Estate
National Convention
ancien regime
Paris Commune
29. Made primogeniture illegal. (most of the father's property went to the oldest son)
Committee of Public Safety
1815
Civil Code
Olympe de Gouges
30. Divided into territories between 1793 and 1795 and no longer existed until after WW I.
Tennis Court Oath
First Consul
Poland
Reign of Terror
31. 'the old order of kings' rea p. 45 National Assemble declared that this no longer existed.
1812
ancien regime
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
Legislative Assembly
32. Napoleon. said he needed control of all of France in order to have order. He was then renamed the emperor. He was important because: he helped France become stable; recognized Catholicism; said levels of government were not by status - but merit; sai
First Estate
ancien regime
First Consul
Jacobin Club
33. Second estate. nobles by birth. not all of them were rich.
Prussia
Nobles of the Sword
First Estate
Reign of Terror
34. Area in Western France who questioned the authority of National Convention.
Vendee
Alien and Sedition Acts
National Assembly
guerrilla warfare
35. Political radicals who were in the Legislative Assembly and decided on war. Georges Jacques Danton and Jean Paul Marat.
Bastille
Assembly of Notables
Jacobin Club
Vendee
36. Napoleon invaded Russia. The Russian basically ruined the land so the French could not live there. 1 out of 6 got out of Russia. Napoleon had never experienced this before.
1812
Reign of Terror
Nobles of the Sword
Napoleon Bonaparte
37. June 20 - 1789 Louis XVI locked the thirst estate out of the place where they normally met for meetings. They said they would stay at Versailles until they had a new constitution for France.
Alien and Sedition Acts
First Consul
Tennis Court Oath
Civil Code
38. A name of the months created in the new calendar. ten-day week created and holidays removed. this calendar was no longer used in 1806.
Paris Commune
Vendee
Thermidor
Napoleon Bonaparte
39. 1769-1821. threatened Britain in Egypt but was defeated by Lord Horatio Nelson. discovered the Rosetta Stone making it possible to understand hieroglyphics. Sold the Louisiana territory to the u.s. because of the war expense.
Thermidorian Reaction
ancien regime
Napoleon Bonaparte
Continental System
40. Started because of Napoleon who wanted Portugal to stop its trading with Britain.
National Assembly
guerrilla warfare
Thermidorian Reaction
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
41. The new name for the Notre Dame cathedral.
Paris Commune
Temple of Reason
Nobles of the Robe
1793
42. Mass execution of men and women through drowning and the guillotine. 25 -000-50 -000 were killed.
peasants
Reign of Terror
First Consul
First Estate
43. This meant that the monarch shared power with the National Assembly and could not act beyond the powers granted him by the constitution. rea p. 45
Girondins
Continental System
Olympe de Gouges
constitutional monarchy