Unit 5: French Revolution & Napoleon Era
Chapter 21: French Revolution & The Napoleonic Era (pg. 691-720)
ID-Sigs
1. classical liberalism
2. Estates General
3. Great Fear
4. National Assembly
5. Declaration of the Rights of Man
6. National Convention
7. Committee of Public Safety
8. Reign of Terror
9. Thermidorian reaction
10. Directory
11. Civil Code of 1804 (Napoleonic Code)
12. Concordat of 1801
13. Louis XV
14. Louis XVI
15. Emmanuel Joseph Sieyés
16. Mary Wollstonecraft
17. Olympe de Gouges
18. Maximilien Robespierre
19. Edmund Burke
20. Napoleon Bonaparte
Chapter 21 Reading Questions
A. Liberty & Equality (pg. 691-697)
1. What did eighteenth-century politicians and other people mean by liberty and equality, and why were
those ideas so radical and revolutionary in their day?
2. In framing the American Constitution; what Enlightened ideas were fashioned into the new system of
government?
Breakdown of the Old Order in France (pg. 697-699)
3. Identify the financial difficulties that contributed to the French Revolution.
4. Identify the characteristics of the three legal orders within the French estates system.
B. The National Assembly & Continental War (pg. 699-706)
1. On what issues did the three estates form a consensus in their petitions for change?
2. Discuss the conditions in France that led to the storming of the Bastill.
3. Identify the enlightened theories stated in the Declaration of the Rights of Man.
4. What were the changes to society, politics, and religion established by the National Assembly?
5. What was the declaration of Pillnitz? And what countries made up the First Coalition?
C. The Second Revolution & Thermidorian Reaction (pg.706-712
1. What changes (good and bad) did the French armies bring to the occupied territories of Europe?
2. Describe the struggle between the Girondists and the Mountain in the National Convention. Who won
& Why?
3. Identify the characteristics of the planned economy established by the Committee of Public Safety.
4. Explain how the actions of the Committee of Public Safety led to the French republic’s victory over the
Frist Coalition.
D. Napoleonic Era (Chap. 21 pp.712-720)
1. Summarize Napoleon’s rise to power in 1799.
2. Identify the actions Napoleon took to maintain order and civil strife in France.
3. Analyze Napoleon’s treatment of the Catholic Church in France.
4. Identify the methods in which Napoleon used to establish authoritarian rule in france.
5. Explain how the treaties of Luneville and Amiens were victories for Napoleon.
6. Discuss the failures and successes of Napoleon from 1803 to 1805.
7. Identify the three geographic parts of Napoleon’s Grand Empire.
8. Identify the positive and negative changes made in conquered territories by Napoleon.
9. Discuss how each of the following events led to the fall of Napoleon and his empire:
a. Spanish revolt of 1808
b. the Continental System
c. the Invasion of Russia in 1812
10. Analyze the reasons for Napoleon’s return of a hundred days and why he failed.