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