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Question 1

1. France’s strength in the 17th century
2. France’s weakness in the 17th century

Answer 1

1. their large industrious populace and farming and commerce
2. lacked righteousness

Question 2

king of France who inherited the throne at age 5 so had help ruling

Answer 2

Louis XIV (14)

Question 3

cardinal who ruled for Louis XIV (14)

Answer 3

Mazarin

Question 4

king with one of the longest reigns of any king in history

Answer 4

Louis XIV (14) ruled for over 70 years

Question 5

nickname of Louis 14

Answer 5

the “Sun King”

Question 6

cocky statement made by Louis 14

Answer 6

I am the state (L’etat c’est moi)

Question 7

Louis 14’s government that he established

Answer 7

bureaucracy (one of the first modern bureaucratic governments)

Question 8

beautiful architectural work filled with mirrors

Answer 8

Palace of Versailles

Question 9

Louis 14’s minister of finance

Answer 9

Jean Baptiste Colbert

Question 10

Father of New France

Answer 10

Samuel de Champlain (founded the first permanent French colony in America: Quebec)

Question 11

explored the central Mississippi Rover

Answer 11

Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet (probably not super important)

Question 12

claimed the entire Mississippi Valley for France and named it Louisiana

Answer 12

Robert Cavalier de la Salle

Question 13

two wars Louis 14 fought

Answer 13

the War of the League of Augsburg and the War of the Spanish Succession

Question 14

ended the War of the League of Augsburg

Answer 14

Treaty of Ryswick

Question 15

ended the War of the Spanish Succession

Answer 15

Treaty of Utrecht

Question 16

new “Dark Age” for France that attempted to apply unaided human philosophy to all areas of man’s life in order to establish a new social order

Answer 16

Age of Enlightenment

Question 17

Father of the Enlightenment

Answer 17

Voltaire

Question 18

1. Voltaire’s philosophy
2. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s philosophy

Answer 18

1. rationalism
2. romanticism

Question 19

editor of the Encyclopedia

Answer 19

Denis Diderot

Question 20

French king forced to call the Estates-General

Answer 20

Louis XVI (16)

Question 21

1. first estate
2. second estate
3. third estate

Answer 21

1. clergy
2. nobility
3. everyone else

Question 22

the French Revolution began as ____

Answer 22

an aristocratic revolution

Question 23

official representative body of all the people of France

Answer 23

National Assembly (bourgeoisie revolution)

Question 24

vowed to continue meeting until a national constitution had been wirtten

Answer 24

Tennis Court Oath

Question 25

Louis XVI (16) 's wife

Answer 25

Marie Antionette

Question 26

day the Bastille was stormed

Answer 26

July 14, 1789 (the revolution was a mass revolution by then)

Question 27

reform that revoked feudalism

Answer 27

August 4 Decrees

Question 28

slogan of the new regime in France

Answer 28

"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, or Death"

Question 29

radical group who did not agree with the constitution

Answer 29

Jacobin Club

Question 30

attempted to justify establishing a Church of France and reduced the pope's power and made the church more subservient to the government

Answer 30

Constituent Assembly

Question 31

France's first written constitution

Answer 31

Constitution of 1791

Question 32

group of government who 1. was conservative and agreed with the Constitution 2. no program or principles but chilled in the middle 3. radicals who weren't satisfied and wanted more

Answer 32

1. Right 2. Center 3. Left

Question 33

device for chopping off human heads

Answer 33

guillotine

Question 34

12 men with extensive police and judicial powers

Answer 34

Committee of Public Safety

Question 35

most influential man in the French government who was involved with the Committee of Public Safety

Answer 35

Maximilien Robespierre

Question 36

time where thousands of known/suspected "enemies of the Republic" were suppressed; 40,000 people were killed

Answer 36

"Reign of Terror"

Question 37

man who returned to Paris from a military campaign in Egypt who became a strong leader

Answer 37

Napoleon Bonaparte

Question 38

Napoleon's proclaimed new republic that consisted of 3 consuls, Napoleon being the first

Answer 38

Consulate

Question 39

an election in which the people express their will

Answer 39

plebiscite

Question 40

Napoleon's famous laws

Answer 40

Code Napoleon

Question 41

agreement Napoleon signed with the pope that helped him be crowned Emperor

Answer 41

Concordat

Question 42

1. British navy destroyed a combined French and Spanish fleet 2. greatest naval hero the world has ever known who helped the British win

Answer 42

1. Battle of Trafalgar 2. Lord Horatio Nelson

Question 43

greatest victory of Napoleon's career

Answer 43

Battle of Austerlitz

Question 44

Napoleon's young wife who was Marie Antoinette's niece

Answer 44

Marie Louise

Question 45

1806, forbade the importation of British goods into any European country (trade war)

Answer 45

"Continental System"

Question 46

war between England and the U.S.

Answer 46

War of 1812

Question 47

Russian leader who withdrew Russia from the Continental System

Answer 47

Czar Alexander I

Question 48

Napoleon's worst enemy in 1812 during his Russian campaign

Answer 48

Russian winter

Question 49

1. October 1813, the combined forces of Europe defeated Napoleon’s new army 2. Napoleon's first exile

Answer 49

1. Battle of Leipzig 2. Elba

Question 50

1. June 18, 1815, Napoleon’s final defeat in Belgium 2. second exile for Napoleon

Answer 50

1. Battle of Waterloo 2. St. Helena

Question 51

leader of the combined British and Prussian armies who defeated Napoleon during his final battle

Answer 51

Duke of Wellington