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 |