JEOPARDY
The French Revolution and
Napoleon
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The Estates
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French Revolution
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Reign of Terror
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Napoleon
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The Congress of
Vienna
What was the balance of power?
Maintaining this would be the goal of
the Congress of Vienna.
Who were the bourgeoisie
This was the name of the upper middle
class of the third estate.
Who were the nobles?
These were the members of the second
estate.
What was the Tennis Court Oath?
This was the pledge that the members of the
National Assembly took that they would write
a constitution for France
What was the Estates General?
This was the legislative assembly of
France at the beginning of the French
Revolution.
What was deficit spending?
This was the carefree financial policy that
caused the huge debt in France at the
beginning of the reign of Louis XVI.
What were the cahiers?
These were the notebooks listing the
grievances compiled by the different
estates to present to Louis XVI.
What was the Bastille?
The storming of this prison on July 14,
1789 became the rallying symbol of the
French Revolution.
What was the Declaration of the Rights of
Man?
This was the French document modeled on the
Declaration of Independence that stated, that all
men are created equal, asserted freedom of
religion, and that taxes should be assessed on
ability to pay.
What was the Declaration of Pilnitz?
This was the claim issued by the countries of
Austria and Prussia that threatened to invade
France and rescue the King and his family.
What was the guillotine?
This was the more humane device used
to execute the enemies of France during
the French Revolution.
What was Maximilien Robespierre?
He was the leader of the Committee of
Public Safety and was responsible for
the Reign of Terror.
Who were the emigres?
These were the aristocrats and clergy
who fled France to avoid execution
when the Reign of Terror began.
Who were the Jacobins?
This was the radical political party that
sat on the left side of the Legislative
Assembly.
What was La Marseillaise?
This was the militant fighting song
which became the French national
anthem.
What were Corsica, Elba, and St. Helena?
These were the three islands that were
important in Napoleon’s life.
What was the Continental System?
This was Napoleon’s economic plan to
force the British to surrender due to
economic collapse.
What was the Napoleonic Code?
This was Napoleon’s system of laws that
became the basis for much of modern
European justice .
What was the Battle of Trafalgar
This was Napoleon’s worst naval defeat
masterminded by Lord Nelson, where the
French fleet was destroyed off the coast of
Spain.
What were the Peninsular Wars?
These were the series of battles fought in
Spain and Portugal by the British and
guerilla forces to stop the spread of
Napoleonic power.
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What was the Battle of Waterloo?
This was the battle that occurred during the
Congress of Vienna and ended Napoleon’s
Hundred Days of power.
Who was Czar Alexander I?
He was the Russian representative at the
Congress of Vienna.
What was legitimacy?
This is what the Congress of Vienna said they
were restoring by putting the old rulers back
on the thrones of Europe.
Who was Prince Clemens von Metternich?
He was the mastermind of the Congress of
Vienna and he is given credit for the next
hundred years of relative peace in European
history.
What was the Concert of Europe?
This was the peace keeping organization set
up at the Congress of Vienna to suppress any
uprisings in Europe that supported the ideals
of the French Revolution.