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