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