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ch.8 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Napoleons first wife who he divorced because she had not produced an heir | Josephine |
| notebooks? | Cahiers |
| Delegates from the Third Estate declared themselves as what? | National Assembly |
| This vowed the National Assembly not to disband until they drew up a constitution | Tennis Court Oath |
| A fortress used a prison | Bastille |
| True or false? Storming the Bastille became a symbol of the French Revolution | True |
| When the worst famine in memory had rumors that ran wild setting this off | Great Fear |
| Hero of the American Revolution | Marquis de Lafayette |
| Middle class Militia | National Guard |
| They had the power to make laws | Legislative Assembly |
| opposed the ideas of the monarchy and wanted sweeping changes. sat on the left side of the hall | Radicals |
| wanted some changes but not as severe as the radicals. They sat in the center of the hall | Moderates |
| Upheld the idea of the limited monarchy and wanted few changes. they sat on the right side of the hall | Conservatives |
| Working class men & women; meaning those without knee breeches | Sans-Colottes |
| Those who had fled to France | Emigres |
| The King of Prussia & the Emperor of Austria issued this, threatening to intervene to protect the French monarchy | Declaration of Pillnitz |
| Abolished monarchy & declared France a monarchy | national convention |
| The right to vote | Suffrage |
| A machine used for beheading | Guillotine |
| to deal with threats outside and inside France the national convention created this | Committee for Public Safety |
| Led the Committee of Public Safety | Maximilen Robespierre |
| This caused corruption and failed; had 5 directors | Directory |
| French ruled island where Napoleon was born | Corsica |
| 3 man governing board | Consulate |
| "coup de' etat" | Blow to the state |
| "lycees" | government ran by state schools open to male students of all backgrounds |
| Agreement with the pope | Concordat |
| a comprehensive system of laws | Napoleonic Code |
| What was the significance of Napoleon taking the crown from the popes hands and crowning himself? | He gave himself the crown no one can take it away now |
| added | annexed |
| The niece of Maria Theresa who was Napoleons 2nd wife | Marie Louise |
| Napoleon's only lost battle | Battle of Trafalgar |
| British Commander (Beat Napoleon in the Battle of Trafalgar) | Horatio Nelson |
| a forcible closing of ports to prevent all trade & communication between Great Britain & Europe | Blockade |
| This was supposed to make Europe more self- sufficient | Continental System |
| Napoleons brother who was Napoleon was replaced with | Joseph |
| bands of Spanish peasant fighters | Guerrillas |
| Napoleon lost 300,000 troops during this war | Peninsular War |
| The Peninsular War is called so because it happened here | Liberian peninsular |
| What was Napoleons most disastrous mistake? | When Napoleon & his Grand Army of 42,000 soldiers invaded Russia |
| When the Russians burned fields and slaughtered livestock so nothing was left behind for the enemy to eat | Scorched Earth Policy |
| step down from power | Abdicate |
| Banished | Exiled |
| small island where Napoleon was exiled | Elba |
| Brother of King Louis XIV | Louis XVIII |
| Belgium town where the British Army helped defeat Napoleon for the last time | Waterloo |
| Led the British Army to help defeat Napoleon for the last time | The Duke of Wellington |
| Napoleons last bid for power | Hundred Days |
| hundred days ended with him being shipped to here | St. Helena |
| European Government held a series of meeting known as this | Congress of Vienna |
| What countries were the Five Great Powers? | Russia, Prussia, Austria,Great Britain& France |
| Most powerful Representative of the Five Great Powers | Prince Klemens von Metternich |
| agreeing to restore as many of those rulers Napoleon had forced off their thrones | Legitimacy |
| These 3 men signed the Holy Alliance | Czar Alexander I of Russia, Emperor Francis I of Austria and King Fredrick William III of Prussia |
| an agreement pleading to base their relations with each other on Christian principles to combat the forces of revelation | Holy Alliance |
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