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