Study Guide

Chapter 7

  1. Napoleon Bonaparte
  2. A French general, political leader, and emperor of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Bonaparte rose swiftly through the ranks of army and government during and after the French Revolution and crowned himself emperor in 1804.
  3. Coup d’etat
  4. a sudden and decisive action in politics, especially one resulting in a change of government illegally or by force.
  5. Plebiscite
  6. the direct vote of all the members of an electorate on an important public question such as a change in the constitution.
  7. Lycee
  8. a secondary school in France that is funded by the government.
  9. Concordat
  10. an agreement or treaty, especially one between the Vatican and a secular government relating to matters of mutual interest.
  11. Napoleonic Code
  12. civil code to post-revolutionary France, its first coherent set of laws concerning property, colonial affairs, the family, and individual rights. On March 21 1804, the Napoleonic Code was finally approved.
  13. Battle of Trafalgar
  14. was a naval engagement fought by the British Royal Navy against the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies, during the War of the Third Coalition (August–December 1805) of the Napoleonic Wars (1796–1815).
  15. Blockade
  16. an act or means of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving.
  17. Continental system
  18. was the foreign policy of Napoleon I of France in his struggle against Great Britain during the Napoleonic Wars.
  19. Guerrilla
  20. a member of a small independent group taking part in irregular fighting, typically against larger regular forces.
  21. Peninsular War
  22. was a military conflict between Napoleon's empire and the allied powers of the Spanish Empire, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Kingdom of Portugal, for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars.
  23. Scorched earth policy
  24. a military strategy of burning or destroying buildings, crops, or other resources that might be of use to an invading enemy force.
  25. Waterloo
  26. a village in central Belgium, south of Brussels: Napoleon decisively defeated here on June 18, 1815.
  27. a decisive or crushing defeat.
  28. Hundred Days
  29. the period from March 20 to June 28, 1815, between the arrival of Napoleon in Paris, after his escape from Elba, and his abdication after the battle of Waterloo.
  1. 3. How did Napoleon become a hero in France?
  2. He drove off the Royalist who attacked the national Assembly, and he led the Army to great Victories in Italy.
  3. 4. What did Napoleon consider his greatest triumph in domestic policy?
  4. The Napoleonic Code
  5. 5. How was Napoleon able to control the countries neighboring the French Empire?
  6. Puppet rulers and threat of force
  1. ______Who built Versailles?
  2. ______Louis XVI married a princess from
  3. ______Louis XV lost which war, leaving France in debt?
  4. ______How many estates were there in French society?
  5. ______What was Marie Antoinette’s nickname
  6. When the Third Estate got locked out, they move next door and took the ______and form the National Assembly.
  7. ______What is the tri-color?
  8. ______When Louis asks if it is a revolt at the Bastille, his informer responds, “No it is a…
  9. ______Louis and Marie try to escape to
  10. Beheading was reserved for the ______and the new ______made execution equal.
  11. ______joined Austria in the war.
  12. ______Who were the sans-culottes?
  13. More than ______aristocrats are murdered by the sans-culottes.
  14. The ______wanted to kill the king, while the Girondins weren’t sure he had to die.
  15. ______Charlotte Corday murders Marat in his.
  16. Marie Antoinette was to be ______like her husband.
  17. ______The Constitution is eventually suspended and anyone perceived to be an enemy of the republic was brought to the national…
  18. The radicals began de-Christianization, replacing saints with ______and re-doing the calendar.
  19. Danton requested to end the ______, and Robespierre had him beheaded.
  20. ______Robespierre unsuccessfully tried to commit suicide, and was eventually
  21. ______The slogan of the French Revolution is Liberté, Egalité, ….
  22. ______When and where was Napoleon born?
  1. The “coup of 18 Brumaire” saw the fall of the French Directory. What was the system of government that followed the French Directory AND what role did Napoleon play in this new government?
  1. What actions did Napoleon take in the years after overthrowing the French Directory in terms of the reforms and policies he implemented in France?
  1. According to the website, what was Napoleon’s most significant accomplishment AND what did it involve?