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26 Cards in this Set
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Lycee |
Government-run public schools set up by Napoleon. |
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Continental System |
The plan to stop all trade and communication between Britain and Europe. |
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Reign of Terror |
The period in France when people were tried as enemies of republic. |
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Waterloo |
The place where British and Prussian forces defeated Napoleon. |
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Blockade |
The forcible closing of ports. |
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Napoleonic Code |
Uniform set of laws that eliminated injustices. |
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Sans-Cullottes |
Wage-earners and shopkeepers who wanted a greater voice in the government. |
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Congress of Vienna |
Meetings called to set up a new European order. |
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Émigrés |
Nobles and others who fled France during peasant uprisings. |
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The Great Fear |
Senseless panic that spread through France in the late 1780's. |
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Plebiscite that named Napoleon first consul. |
Not one of Napoleon's costly mistakes. |
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T/F first estate controlled by government |
False |
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Marie Antoinette |
Most famous victim of the Reign of Terror. |
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Set Up Efficient Tax System |
How Napoleon stabilized France's economy. |
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Toussaint L'ouverture |
Leader of 1789 slave revolt in Saint Domigue |
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Why Napoleon considered savior of French Republic |
Defended delegates of National Convention against the royalists. |
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Largest group in the third estate |
Peasants. |
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Bastille |
Prison stormed by Parisians on July 4, 1788. |
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French leader who sold the Louisiana territory to the U.S. |
Napoleon. |
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Enlightenment ideas/slogan is French Revolution |
Liberty, equality, fraternity. |
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Napoleon's arrogance at coronation. |
Ugh you know it I'm not writing it. |
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Goal of Congress of Vienna |
Security and stability for Europe. |
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Napoleonic Code |
Took away some rights of women. |
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Only major battle lost by Napoleon |
Battle at Trafalgar. |
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Essay 1 |
1st estate- R.C.C and clergy, owned 10% of French land paid 2% of income to government. 2nd estate- Nobles, owned 20% of land, paid almost no taxes. 3rd estate- 98% of France, heavily taxed, unhappy, high taxes/low wages/high food prices |
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Essay 2 |
Napoleon=order and stability, efficient tax system, national bank, signed agreement with pope to create new relationship between church and state, napoleonic code
Started wars, blockade hurt France, invasion of Russia was disaster |
