Please do not talk at this time
Oct 27
HW: Use Chapter 7, Sec. 3 and 4 to add to your Chart.
Make your chart as complete as possible!
What should Ms. Caramagno be for Halloween? Please vote for your favorite:
Pirate
Medieval Princess
Turkish Belly Dancer
Devil
Jawa from Star Wars
Jane Austen
• Napoleon Week!
• Please get a chart from the front of the
room
All these quotes are from the same person. What do they
tell you about him? Make a list on Pg. 32A
 “Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow
anyone to take her away from me.”
 “There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long
run the sword is always beaten by the mind."
 “Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.”
 "He that makes war without many mistakes has not made war very long."
 “Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.”
 “Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are
silent.”
 “History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree
upon”.
 “I know when it is necessary, how to leave the skin of lion to take one of
fox.”
 “A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.”
 “A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.”
 “Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
The Rise and
Fall of
Napoleon’s
Empire
How does this
Picture reflect the
information you
gathered from the
quotes?
How about these two Pictures?
Church Representatives
Empress Josephine
For Each Slide….
• For each slide, add information to your
chart. Make sure you put things in the
correct category!
• As you go put a P next to things that are
Political, an S next to things that are Social
and an E next to things that are Economic.
• Don’t do the Questions yet!
Napoleon was born here,
on the Island of Corsica
I. Napoleon Seizes Power
• 1769 – Born on Corsica
• Military school in France on Scholarship
• Saved National Convention, by firing shot at
a mob come to get them
• Directory sent him into Italy- Success!
• Egypt- while there he practices
administration, but loses to Nelson
• Returns to France as the Hero of Egypt (the
news he lost is slower to arrive.)
• 1799 – dissolved Directory, seized power
with friends Sieyes and Ducos and they three
become consuls to run the government
• Later, even more popular, he declares
himself the one leader of France
• He takes on the Powers of a Dictator
II. Napoleon Rules France
• Plebiscite (public vote) approved new
constitution – Napoleon stronger
• He repair the economy – fixed tax
collection, established a national bank,
fired the corrupt
• Lycees – started government run public
schools, rewards based on merit
• Concordat – repairs the relationship with
Church, He will claim influence but no
control
• Establishes the Napoleonic Code – A
system of laws that were uniform but
eliminated individual rights, and restored
slavery in Caribbean
III. Napoleon Creates an Empire
• 1804 – crowned himself Emperor
• Wanted territory in New World, couldn’t
overcome slave armies in Haiti and sold
the Louisiana Purchase to the USA
• Wanted to expand in Europe, other
nations attacked & were defeated,
signed peace treaties
• Austerlitz is his finest battle. He crushes
the Russians and Austrians both
• Battle of Trafalgar – England’s Nelson
destroyed the French fleet, Napoleon
wouldn’t be able to invade Britain
• Most of continental Europe in his control
by 1812
Please do not talk at this time
Oct 28
Test on the Enlightenment, American and French
Revolutions Tuesday, Nov. 4th.
• Disaster drill at the end of the period.
• Do I have a volunteer to take the First Aid kit to the
evacuation spot on the Football Field?
• Do I have a volunteer to lead the class if I am
prevented from evacuating because of Rubble?
• Do I have a volunteer to assist my Buddy Ms.
Forster if I have to stay with an injured student or
can’t get out of the rubble?
• Also, get out your Napoleon Work!
Army vs. Navy
Nelson
Battles of Napoleon
The Greatest Extent of Napoleon’s Empire!
IV. Napoleon’s Costly Mistakes
A) Continental System – blockade
against Great Britain, destroy
economy, make continental
Europe more self-sufficient,
Britain did it better…
B) Peninsular War – French
marched into Spain, took over
govt., Spanish guerrilla forces
attacked, French army severely
weakened
C) Napoleon establishes his
relatives as kings in the
countries he conquers. These
people are not competent rulers.
The citizens of these countries
revolt.
D) Invasion of Russia –
Meant to punish Czar for
selling grain to England.
1812- 600,000 + French
soldiers invade Russia
Russians pull back and
refuse to fight, practice
scorched-earth policy,
and burn Moscow down.
Napoleon marched back to
France in winter, lost his
army to the cold. 20,000
walk out…
“Swallows fell from the sky like stones, frozen in
flight in the bitter cold…”
V. Napoleon’s Downfall
• Major powers attacked:
England and Prussia
• 1814 – Napoleon
surrendered at Liepzig,
exiled to island of Elba
• New king unpopular,
Napoleon escaped Elba,
returns to France a Hero
for 100 days and built a
new army in 1815
• Battle of Waterloo –
Napoleon defeated by
combined forces of
Russia, Prussia, Austria
Sweden and England
• St. Helena – Exiled until
his death in 1821
Now that you have these notes…
• Go back through your entries and label
each event:
– P for Political
– S for Social
– E for economic
• Also, Can you identify any of Napoleon’s
Actions as Reactionary, Conservative,
Liberal or Radical? Explain…
Find two people to work with and look at the
questions at the bottom of your chart
paper. Can you answer them with the
information in your notes and on your
chart?
Decide what your best answer is as a group
and write that on the back of your chart
paper.
1. What do you think was Napoleon’s legacy to
France? That is, what do you think happened
during his control that had a lasting effect on
France?
2. How did Napoleon preserve the goals of the
French Revolution?
3. What other things did Napoleon do to betray
the goals of the French Revolution?
Video on Napoleon!
• This video will help you make connections
between the French Revolution and
Napoleon.
• Look at the Video Questions. How many
can you answer right now?
• As you watch, fill in the answers.
• First we will look at some vocabulary….
• Abdicate- To formally relinquish/give
up ruling power.
• Armistice- Temporary end to
hostilities and fighting by agreement
between the opposing sides.
• Artillery- A branch of an army
armed with cannons.
• Coup- French for “to cut”, the
violent overthrow of an existing
government leader by a small
group.
• Guillotine- A machine
for beheading by
means of a heavy
blade that slides down
in vertical guides.
Please do not talk at this time
Oct 31
Happy Halloween!
• Get out your Napoleon Movie Questions
and start working on Question 10.
• Autocratic- Rule by one person with all
the power
• Democratic- Rule by all the people,
usually by voting for a representative to
rule them
• Which of Napoleon’s actions were
Autocratic? Which were Democratic?
You may use your notes to get more
ideas….
Share Out…
Napoleon Quotes Assignment
In your groupInstructions:
1. Read the quote.
2. Circle the parts that are “autocratic”.
3. Underline the parts that are “democratic.”
4. According to the information in this quote, is Napoleon
Democratic or Autocratic?
5. On the continuum, place a mark where you think Napoleon
belongs.
Autocratic
Democratic
5. Be ready to EXPLAIN why you put the mark where you did.
Write your explanation on the bottom of the instruction paper.
You will explain it to the class.
Test Review Game…
• In A Vindication of the Rights of Women,
this political thinker presented an
argument for the education of women. She
also declared that women should have the
same political rights as men.
A. Mary Wollstonecraft
• This philosopher's ideas greatly influenced
criminal law reformers in Europe and
North America. He argued against the use
of torture and other common abuses of
justice.
A. Cesar Beccaria
• This aristocratic philosopher was devoted to the
study of political liberty. In his famous book On
the Spirit of the Laws, he proposed that
separation of powers would keep any individual
or group from gaining total control of a
government.
A. Montesquieu
• This philosopher strongly disagreed with other
philosophers on a number of matters. For
instance, although most philosophers believed
that reason, science, and art improve the lives of
all people, he argued that civilization corrupts
people's natural goodness.
A. J. J. Rousseau
• This philosopher's masterful use of satire got
him into frequent trouble with the clergy, the
aristocracy, and the government of France.
Despite serving two prison terms and being
exiled, he never stopped fighting for tolerance,
reason, freedom of religion, and freedom of
speech.
A. Voltaire
• This political thinker felt that people are
reasonable beings. He supported selfgovernment and argued that the purpose of
government is to protect the natural rights (Life,
Liberty and Property) of people. If government
fails to protect these natural rights, he said,
citizens have the right to overthrow it.
A. John Locke
• This political thinker believed that all humans are
naturally selfish and wicked. He argued,
therefore, that strong governments are
necessary to control human behavior. To avoid
chaos, he said, people enter into a social
contract. They give up their rights in exchange
for law and order.
A. Thomas Hobbes
• What Order did these events occur in?
the repeal of the Stamp Act
the adoption of the Bill of Rights
the end of the French and Indian War
the calling of the Second Continental Congress
A.
the end of the French and Indian War
the repeal of the Stamp Act
the calling of the Second Continental Congress
the adoption of the Bill of Rights
• Who wrote the Declaration of
Independence?
A. Thomas Jefferson
• Who’s ideas are featured the most heavily
in the Declaration of Independence?
A. John Locke
• The Bill of Rights was based on ideas by
which Enlightenment Philosophers?
A. Voltaire, John Locke, Jean Jacques Rousseau.
• What happened on July 14th?
A. The Storming of the Bastille
• Which Estate in French society most
strongly embraced the ideals and
principles of the Enlightenment?
A. 3rd Estate
• Which group ran the Reign of Terror?
A. The Committee for Public Safety
• Who Paid Taxes in France before the
Revolution?
A. 3rd Estate
• What is a Social Contract?
A. The philosophical idea that people are willing to
give up some individual freedoms in the interests.