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