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