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CLEP Western Civilization II: French Revolution And Napoleon
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1. 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.
Girondins
Prussia
Great Fear
King Friederich Wilhelm II
2. 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.
National Assembly
Committee of Public Safety
King Friederich Wilhelm II
Paris Commune
3. Mass execution of men and women through drowning and the guillotine. 25 -000-50 -000 were killed.
guerrilla warfare
Reign of Terror
Thermidor
Committee of Public Safety
4. Prussia's king. Declaration of Pillnitz. said if the royalty was harmed he and Austria (Leopold) would attack France.
Girondins
Poland
King Friederich Wilhelm II
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
5. The new name for the Notre Dame cathedral.
Second Estate
Thermidorian Reaction
Assembly of Notables
Temple of Reason
6. Luois XVI was killed by the new invention the Guillotine.
1793
Committee of Public Safety
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
Girondins
7. Laws in the U.S. to somewhat keep French revolutionaries from immigrating to America.
Thermidor
Leopold II
Alien and Sedition Acts
Civil Code
8. 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.
Great Fear
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
King Friederich Wilhelm II
War of Austrian Succession
9. France was no longer constantly at war.
First Consul
1815
Prussia
constitutional monarchy
10. 1807. Russia and Napoleon for some land. by 1810 they no longer wanted this treaty.
National Assembly
Prussia
Treaty of Tilsit
Reign of Terror
11. Louis sent more troops to Paris and the people attacked this prison. They killed the guards and carried their heads around the city.
Bastille
Great Fear
1793
King Friederich Wilhelm II
12. 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.
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Paris Commune
Girondins
Thermidor
13. Would not allow anyone to trade with Britain in order to ruin it.
Temple of Reason
Continental System
Third Estate
1793
14. The new name of the Third Estate.
Treaty of Tilsit
Jacobin Club
National Assembly
Prussia
15. Owned some land. paid a lot of the taxes and they also had to pay tithes.
Girondins
Second Estate
peasants
Assembly of Notables
16. Nobles of the word and nobles of the robe. few taxes.
1815
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Second Estate
Tennis Court Oath
17. Divided into territories between 1793 and 1795 and no longer existed until after WW I.
Poland
guerrilla warfare
First Consul
Thermidor
18. Led by Danton. executed many people who were dangerous to the revolution.
Paris Commune
guerrilla warfare
1812
Nobles of the Robe
19. 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.
Continental System
guerrilla warfare
Poland
Tennis Court Oath
20. 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.
Continental System
Napoleon Bonaparte
Assembly of Notables
First Estate
21. Paris. did not want the monarchy.
Mountain
Alien and Sedition Acts
First Estate
Great Fear
22. 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)
Thermidor
Bastille
First Estate
Leopold II
23. Second estate. they bought their statuses like the parlements. ('positions in France's high courts') rea. p. 42
Nobles of the Robe
Committee of Public Safety
Olympe de Gouges
Tennis Court Oath
24. Countryside. wanted the monarchy.
Girondins
Napoleon Bonaparte
Civil Code
peasants
25. People who were not in the other two estates. merchants - peasants - and middle class. bourgeoisie.
Bastille
First Estate
Girondins
Third Estate
26. 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.
Nobles of the Robe
Reign of Terror
guerrilla warfare
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
27. 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.
Thermidor
First Consul
Assembly of Notables
1793
28. 'the old order of kings' rea p. 45 National Assemble declared that this no longer existed.
Tennis Court Oath
ancien regime
Legislative Assembly
National Assembly
29. Clergy. Did not pay any taxes.
Olympe de Gouges
Continental System
First Estate
Poland
30. Was the Legislative Assembly. They ended the monarchy in France.
1815
National Convention
constitutional monarchy
Great Fear
31. Area in Western France who questioned the authority of National Convention.
Olympe de Gouges
Vendee
National Convention
King Friederich Wilhelm II
32. Second estate. nobles by birth. not all of them were rich.
Nobles of the Sword
Thermidorian Reaction
Vendee
Mountain
33. 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.
Leopold II
1812
War of Austrian Succession
peasants
34. Made primogeniture illegal. (most of the father's property went to the oldest son)
guerrilla warfare
Leopold II
First Consul
Civil Code
35. Originally the National Assembly. 1792 mobs invade this and made it allow all men to vote. They also ended the monarchy.
Tennis Court Oath
Poland
Thermidor
Legislative Assembly
36. Political radicals who were in the Legislative Assembly and decided on war. Georges Jacques Danton and Jean Paul Marat.
Jacobin Club
War of Austrian Succession
Olympe de Gouges
Paris Commune
37. 'Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Female Citizen' equality in politics for both women and men.
Paris Commune
ancien regime
Olympe de Gouges
Great Fear
38. 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
Thermidorian Reaction
1812
First Consul
Temple of Reason
39. Started because of Napoleon who wanted Portugal to stop its trading with Britain.
guerrilla warfare
Nobles of the Sword
Thermidorian Reaction
Mountain
40. 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
constitutional monarchy
peasants
Bastille
Nobles of the Sword
41. Nobles were taking grain to scare the peseants into submission. Some peseants attacked - burning mansions - and killing some nobles.
Bastille
Great Fear
Paris Commune
Leopold II
42. France helped Prussia which soon would become a threat. Britain came into the war because of France's help.
Poland
Assembly of Notables
Second Estate
War of Austrian Succession
43. '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.
Treaty of Tilsit
Committee of Public Safety
Thermidorian Reaction
Civil Constitution of the Clergy