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Chapter 25
Chapter 23
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| About 97 percent of the people belonged to the_____ estate. | Third |
| The______ was the middle class and were bankers, factory owners, merchants, professionals, and skilled artisans. | Bourgeois |
| This body had the power to create laws and to approve or reject declarations of war. | The Legislative Assembly |
| “Those without knee breeches” | Sans-culottes |
| Cruel form of capital punishment. | Guillotine |
| 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. | Napoleon |
| A sudden seizure of power | coup d’état |
| This established a new relationship between church and state. | Concordat |
| This gave the country a uniform set of laws and eliminated many injustices. | Napoleon Code |
| Napoleon set up a _____ . To prevent all trade and communication between Great Britain and other European nations. | Blockade |
| Bands of Spanish peasant fighters were called _____. | Guerrillas |
| Involved burning grain fields and slaughtering livestock so as to leave nothing for the enemy to eat. | Scorched-earth policy |
| A series of meetings in Vienna. | Congress of Vienna |
| Agreeing that as many as possible of the rulers whom Napoleon had driven from their thrones be restored to power | Legitimacy |
| Pledged to base their relations with other nations on Christian principles in order to combat the forces of revolution. | Holy alliance |