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Chapter 23
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Metternich had three goals at the Congress of Vienna what were they? | First he wanted to prevent future French aggression by surrounding France with strong countries. Second he wanted to restore a balance of power. He wanted to restore Europe’s royal families to the thrones they had held before Napoleon’s conquests. |
| The Congress took the following steps to make the weak countries around France stronger: | A group of 39 German states were loosely joined as the newly created German Confederation, dominated by Austria. These changes enabled the countries of Europe to contain France and prevent it from overpowering weaker nations and two more reasons. |
| What is Legitimacy? | is the hereditary right of a monarch to rule. |
| What is Holy Alliance? | is a league of European nations formed by the leaders of Russia, Austria, and Prussia after the Congress of Vienna. |
| What is a Concert of Europe? | is a series of alliances among European nations in the 19th century, devised by Prince Klemens von Metternich to prevent the outbreak of revolutions. |
| How many costly mistakes did Napoleon make? | he made three costly mistakes. |
| What was the Blockade? | is the use of troops or ships to prevent commercial traffic from entering or leaving a city or Region. |
| What was the Continental System? | which was Napoleon’s policy of preventing trade between Great Britain and continental Europe, intended to destroy Great Britain’s economy. |
| What was the Guerrilla? | a member of a loosely organized fighting force that makes surprise attacks on enemy troops occupying his or her country. |
| What was the Peninsular War? And what happened? | it was a conflict, lasting from 1808 to 1813, in which Spanish rebels, with the aid of British forces, fought to drive Napoleon’s French troops out of Spain. |
| What was a scorched-earth policy? | it was the practice of burning crops and killing livestock during wartime so that the enemy cannot live off the land. |
| What was the Hundred Days? And what happened? | the brief period during 1815 when Napoleon made his last bid for power, deposing the French king and again becoming emperor of France. |
| Who was Napoleon Bonaparte? And what did he do before being what he is now? | was born in 1769 on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. When he was nine years old his parents sent him to a military school. In 1785 at the age of 16 he finished school and became a lieutenant in the artillery. |
| What was the coup d’état? | it was a sudden seizure of political power in a nation. (or “blow to the state”) |
| What was the plebiscite? | it was a direct vote in which a country’s people have the opportunity to approve or reject a proposal. |
| What is the Concordat? | it is a formal agreement— especially one between the pope and a government, dealing with the control of Church affairs. |
| What was the Napoleonic Code? | is a comprehensive and uniform system of laws established for France by Napoleon. |
| What was the Battle of Trafalgar? And what happened | in 1805 naval battle in which Napoleon’s forces were defeated by a British fleet under the command of Horatio Nelson. |
| What were the two major results of the Battle of Trafalgar? | One result was the ensured the supremacy of the British navy for the next 100 years. The last result was that it forced Napoleon to give up his plans of invading Britain. |
| What Document says that “men are born and remain free and equal in rights” it includes “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity” as their slogan? | the document is Decoration of the Rights of Men of the Citizen. |
| What did writer Olympe de Gouges wrote a ...... ? | Decoration Rights of Women (it was rejected) |
| What was the Legislative Assembly? | was a French congress with the power to create laws and approve declarations of war, established by the Constitution of 1791. |
| What were the three groups that separated Legislative Assembly? | radicals, moderates and conservatives were the three groups. |
| What was the Émigré? | it is a person who leaves their native country for political reasons, like the nobles and others who fled France during the peasant uprisings of the French Revolution. |
| What was the Sans-culottes? | it was in the French Revolution, a radical group made up of Parisian wage earners and small shopkeepers who wanted a greater voice in government, lower prices, and an end to food Shortages. ( or “those without knee breeches” ) |
| What was the Guillotine? | is a machine for beheading people, used as a means of execution during the French Revolution. |
| What was the Reign of Terror? And what happened? | is a period, from mid-1793 to mid-1794, when Maximilien Robespierre ruled France nearly as a dictator and thousands of political figures and ordinary citizens were executed. |
| What was the Old Regime? | is a political and social system that existed in France before the French Revolution. |
| What was the Estate? | it was one of the three social classes in France before the French Revolution—the First Estate consisting of the clergy; the Second Estate, of the nobility; and the Third Estate, of the rest of the population. |
| The First Estate was ...... | was made up of clergy of Roman Catholic Church. Secorned Enlightenment ideas. |
| The Second Estate was made up ....... | made up of rich nobles. |
| The Third Estate was included ....... | included bourgeoisie, lower classmen. |
| Who was Louis XVI? | he was the husband of Marie Antoinette got France extremely broke and on charged the poor and not the nobles |
| Who was Marie Antoinette? | she was wife of King Louis XVI she loved to spend money which made them broke. |
| What was the Estates-General? | was an assembly of representatives from all three of the estates, or social classes, in France. |
| What was the National Assembly? | was a French congress established by representatives of the Third Estate on June 17, 1789, to enact laws and reforms in the name of the French people. |
| What was the Tennis Court Oath? | was a pledge made by the members of France’s National Assembly in 1789, in which they vowed to continue meeting until they had drawn up a new constitution. |
| What was the Great Fear? | was a wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille In 1789. |
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