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Chapter 19 Study Guide
"French Revolution"

1. parlements
2. Rene Maupeou
3. Jacques Necker
4. Danton
5. Marat
6. Abbe Sieyes
7. vote by head/order
8. cahiers de doleances
9. Tennis Court Oath
10. National Constituent Assembly
11. Bastille
12. journees
13. August 4, 1789
14. Great Fear
15. Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
16. Olympe de Gouges
17. Chapelier Law
18. departments
19. "active" and "passive" citizens
20. assignats
21. Civil Constitution of the Clergy
22. emigres
23. sans-culottes
24. Declaration of Pillnitz
25. Jacobins
26. Mountain
27. enrages
28. Citizen Capet
29. Edmund Burke
30. William Pitt the younger
31. Frederick William II
32. Francis II
33. Commitee of Public Safety
34. Reign of Terror
35. Maximillien Robespierre
36. Republic of Virtue
37. levee en masse
38. Society of Revolutionary Republican Women
39. dechristinization of France
40. white terror
41. Thermidorian Reaction
42. Law of 22 Prairial
43. Directory
44. Gracchus Babeuf
 
 

 

 Chapter 20 Study Guide
"Napoleon"

1. The Consulate
2. 1st Consul
3. Joseph Fouche
4. Concordat of 1801
5. Napoleonic Code
6. Constitution
7. The Empire, 1804
8. Pius VII
9. Napoleon I
10. Josephine
11. Luneville
12. Amien
13. Peace Interim, 1802-1805
14. Satellite States
15. Francis II (HRE)
16. Ulm, Oct. 1805
17. Trafalgar, 1805
18. Horatio Nelson
19. Austerlitz, Dec. 2, 1805
20. Treaty of Pressburg
21. The Confederation of the Rhine
22. Jena and Auerstadt
23. Frederick William III
24. Eylau, 1806
25. Friedland, 1807
26. Alexander I
27. Peace of Tilsit, 1807
28. Continental System
29. Peninsular War and Campaigns
30. Duke of Wellington
31. Tallyrand
32. Nepotism of Napoleon
33. Marie Louise, 1810
34. Allied States
35. Grande Armee
36. Enlightened Despot or Military Dictator?
37. German Nationalism
38. JG Fichte, “Address to the German People”
39. Prussian Reform
40. Baron Von Stein
41. Von Scharnhorst
42. Russia, 1812
43. ”Scorched earth retreat”
44. Moscow
45. 4th Coalition
46. Leipzig, “Battle of Nations”
47. Quadruple Alliance
48. April 4, 1814 -to Elba
49. First Treaty of Paris, May 30, 1814
50. Congress of Vienna
51. Louis XVIII and the Bourbon Restoration
52. The Hundred Days
53. Waterloo, June 1815
54. Duke of Wellington and Gebhard Von Blucher
55. St. Helena
56. The Second Treaty of Paris, 1815
 
Chapter 19
1.  Discuss the financial crisis in France on the eve of the French Revolution. Why was the problem so grave in a country that had considerable wealth? Distinguish between the rural and urban aspects of the problem.  
2.  What were the polices of the National Constituent Assembly toward the Catholic Church?  How would these polices "revolutionize" church-state relations throughout Europe?
3.  What caused the Reign of Terror in France? Are events such as this normal in revolutionary movements?  Was there a similar or comparable situation in the American Revolution?
4.  Describe the Thermidorean Reaction.  Why should these events be considered as important parts of the era of the French Revolution?
5.  The French Revolution is often characterized as the beginning of the end of the old regime in Europe as well as a sign of things to come in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.  Comment on this statement using appropriate examples as necessary.
6.  What grievances did the bourgeoisie, sans culottes, and the peasants have with the Old Regime?  How did the National Assembly overhaul the institutions of the Old Regime?
7.  What major principles were announced in the Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen?  Of what significance was the Declaration to be?
8.  Discuss the role of women during the French Revolution.
9.  "Robespierre symbolized all that was good and all that was tragic in the French Revolution."  Evaluate this statement.  

Chapter 20
   1.How would you evaluate the personality, talents, and political ideas of Napoleon?
   2.Describe and evaluate the significance of the major reforms introduced by Napoleon: a) in law and administration,
 b) In public finance and taxation, and c) in church-state relations.
   3.How would you summarize the major accomplishments of the Revolution by the end of the Consulate? In what
 ways had the Revolution strengthened France? How did the governments of Europe regard Napoleon?
   4.In what sense was Napoleon a) a “child of the Enlightenment and of the Revolution,” b)”the last of the enlightened
 despots”?
   5.Explain the origins, purpose, and nature of the Continental System. Why did the Continental System fail?
   6.In what sense was the Napoleonic empire at its height in the years 1809-1811?
   7.In what sense were the main principles of the Revolution spread throughout Europe by Napoleon?
   8.Of what significance was the Napoleonic age for the development of nationalism? What different forms did nationalist
 feelings take?
   9.Discuss the development of nationalist political thought in Napoleonic Germany. What manifestations of 
 German nationalist activities appeared?  
10.What factors made everything go wrong in Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812? How did Europe react to  Napoleon’s setback in Russia?
11.What factors contributed to the overthrow of Napoleon?
12.Why did many Frenchmen rally to Napoleon upon his return? How did the allies react?
 
 

 
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