Review Sheet for the French Revolution and Napoleon Test
1. What is the Old Regime?
2. What are the THREE ESTATES? Be able to tell me what group of people
belongs to each.
3. Why were the French people unhappy in the Mid 1700s?
4. Why did Louis XVI call the Estates General in 1789?
5. What was the direct cause or the TRIGGER of the French Revolution?
6. What was the Tennis Court Oath?
7. What was the National Assembly and who belonged to it?
8. What did the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen say?
9. What was the cause of the Storming of the Bastille and what did it prove?
10. What was the Great fear and how did the Storming of the Bastille lead to the
Great Fear?
11. What did the National Assembly do to attempt to restore power?
12. What was the goal of the National Convention?
13. KNOW THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM!!!!! Girondins, Jacobins, and the
Mountains or San Culottes.
14. Who is Robespierre?
15. What is the Committee of Public Safety? Why was it set up by the National
Convention?
16. What was the Reign of Terror and who led it?
17. What was the Law of Suspects?
18. What happened to Louis XVI?
19. What was the Directory?
20. Why was the Directory overthrown?
21. What was the ultimate outcome of the French Revolution?
22. MAKE SURE YOU KNOW THE QUESTIONS ON THE NAPPOLEON
MAOVE!!!!!!!
23. Who is Napoleon? Where was he born? What was his family like?
24. How did Napoleon gain control of an army in Italy?
25. What was Napoleon’s primary reason for invading Egypt and what was the
outcome of his invasion of Egypt?
26. What titles did he have?
27. What were Napoleon’s military strengths?
28. What did Napoleon do with the Holy Roman Empire when he conquered it?
29. When the Hundred Days begin and end?
30. Why did Napoleon’s invasion of Russia fail?
31. What was the goal of the Hundred days?
32. What effect did Napoleon have on the Italian Peninsula?
33. Which of the following was not a principle held by Napoleon and spread
throughout his empire?
34. Which islands did Napoleon get exiled to?
35. Terms to know
a. Universal Manhood Suffrage
b. Danton
c. The Mountains
d. Coalitions
e. Consulate
f. Concordat
g. Meritocracy
h. Continental System
i. Nationalism
j. Émigré