REVIEW SHEET FOR FRENCH REVOLUTION/NAPOLEON TEST
TERMS
FRENCH REVOLUTION - third estate revolted because of too many
taxes; more violent than the American Revolution
THIRD ESTATE -the common people; peasants; forced to pay the most
taxes; given the least; started the revolution
BOURGEOISIE – Members of the Third Estate
ESTATES GENERAL – governmental body called upon by Louis XVI;
had not been used in 175; 1st and 2nd estates usually out voted the 3rd
CAHIER – List of Grievances
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY - new gov’t body created by the third estate
and reform - minded nobles and clergy
TENNIS COURT OATH – Vowed to meet until a Just constitution was
Writen.
DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN
BASTILLE - French prison; stormed on July 14th to begin the
revolution
JACOBINS – Radical group; Robespierre was a member
SANS COULOTTS – Radical group made up of the working class
NATIONAL CONVENTION – renamed from the National Assembly
GUILLOTINE - France’s tool of execution; chopped off peoples’ heads
including Louis XVI and Robespierre
COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY - government agency headed by
Robespierre to get rid of “enemies of the nation”
COUP D’ETATE - seizure of the state; Napoleon’s take over of the
government
NAPOLEONIC CODE - laws created by Napoleon giving the French
people back the rights they had won during the revolution; all men are
equal; freedom of religion; all was lost after his fall
THE DIRECTORY – made up of 5 men
ELBA – 1st Island Napoleon sent to exile after his defeat at Russia
WATERLOO – Napoleon’s Final Battle
TREATY OF FOUNTAINBLEAU – Sends Napoleon to exile in Elba
ST. HELENA – Final Island Napoleon was exiled to after defeat at
Battle of Waterloo
PEOPLE
LOUIS XVI - King of France during the French Revolution; head
chopped off by a guillotine
JACQUES NECKER – ECONOMIC MINISTER
MAXIMILIAM ROBESPIERRE - head of the Committee of Public
Safety; had Reign of Terror to get rid of “enemies of the nation”
NAPOLEON - French General; staged a coup; exiled to Elba and St.
Helena; created Napoleonic Code; expanded boarders; kept the nation at
war; lost a lot of money