Chapter 7

Question 1

System of feudalism in Middle Ages

Answer 1

Old Regime

Question 2

Social class

Answer 2

Estate

Question 3

Became king in 1774

Answer 3

Louis XVI

Question 4

Louis XVI wife

Answer 4

Marie Antoinette

Question 5

Assembly of representatives from all 3 estates

Answer 5

Estates-General

Question 6

Pass laws and reforms in the name of the French people

Answer 6

National Assembly

Question 7

3rd estate delegates pledged to stay until new constitution was formed

Answer 7

Tennis Court Oath

Question 8

Wave of senseless panic

Answer 8

Great Fear

Question 9

Why were the members of the Third a Estate dissatisfied with their way of life under the Old Regime?

Answer 9

They were heavily taxed and treated poorly

Question 10

Why was the fall of the Bastille important to the French Revolution?

Answer 10

Bastille fell into control of citizens and it was symbolic because it showed progress in Revolution

Question 11

Statement of revolutionary ideals adopted by Frances National Assembly in 1789

Answer 11

Declaration of the Rughts of Man

Question 12

Had power to create laws/to approve or prevent laws war the king declares

Answer 12

Legislative Assembly

Question 13

Nobles and others who fled France during leasing uprising

Answer 13

Émigres

Question 14

Most radical group

Answer 14

Sans-Culottes

Question 15

Machine used to behead people

Answer 15

Guillotine

Question 16

Gathered control after Louis XVI death

Answer 16

Maximillien Robespierre

Question 17

Made to identify “enemies of the republic”

Answer 17

Committee of Public Safety

Question 18

MR period of rule

Answer 18

Reign of Terror

Question 19

Name three political reforms that resulted in the French Revolution.

Answer 19

Declaration of the Rights of Man, incorporation of church into the state, and creation of the Legislative Assembly

Question 20

What was the Reign of Terror, and how did it end?

Answer 20

Robespierre time of ruling where he killed thousands of people, it ended with Robespierre losing his head to the guilitene

Question 21

Became a lieutenant in army at age 16

Answer 21

Napoleon Bonaparte

Question 22

Sudden seizure of political power

Answer 22

Coup D’tat

Question 23

Vote of the people

Answer 23

Plebiscite

Question 24

Government-run public schools

Answer 24

Lycées

Question 25

Agreement

Answer 25

Concordant

Question 26

Napoleons comprehensive system of laws

Answer 26

Napoleonic Code

Question 27

Only major battle Napoleon lost

Answer 27

Battle of Trafalgar

Question 28

Summarize Napoleons Reforms in France.

Answer 28

Created a government ruled public schools, created the napoleonic code, and created a national banking system

Question 29

What steps did Napoleon take to create an empire in Europe?

Answer 29

Gained fame though military defeats, then dissolved directory with a coup, and then became the first consul, and finally dictator

Question 30

Forcible closing of ports

Answer 30

Blockade

Question 31

Supposed to make continental Europe more self-sufficient

Answer 31

Continental System

Question 32

Bands of Spanish peasant fighters

Answer 32

Guerrilla

Question 33

Napoleon lost 30,000 men/weakened French Empire

Answer 33

Peninsular War

Question 34

Burning grain fields, slaughtering livestock, as to leave nothing that enemy could eat

Answer 34

Scorched-Earth Policy

Question 35

Napoleon attacked British army in 1815

Answer 35

Waterloo

Question 36

Defeat that ended Napoleon bud for power

Answer 36

Hundred Days

Question 37

What factors led to Napoleons defeat in Russia?

Answer 37

Starving men, sick from cold, Russian raiders constantly attacked them on their way home from retreat

Question 38

Summarize the reasons that the European allies were able to defeat Napoleon in 1814 and again in 1815.

Answer 38

1814- army wasn’t trained | 1815- got exhausted and gave away

Question 39

Series of meeting in Vienna/ called to set up policies

Answer 39

Congress of Vienna

Question 40

Foreign minister of Austria who distrusted democratic ideals

Answer 40

Klemens von Metternich

Question 41

No country’s would be a threat to others

Answer 41

Balance of Powers

Question 42

Hereditary rift of a monarch to rule

Answer 42

Legitimacy

Question 43

League of European nations

Answer 43

Holy Alliance

Question 44

Assured that nations would help one another if any revolutions broke out

Answer 44

Concert of Europe

Question 45

What were Metternich three goals at the congress of Vienna?

Answer 45

Prevent future French aggression by surrounding France with string countries, wanted to restore a balance of power, and restore European royal families to throne

Question 46

How did Congress of Vienna assure peace in europe for the next 38 years?

Answer 46

Settlements were far more successful than any other peace meeting in history, and nations were cooperating to control polictial affairs