STUDY GUIDE FOR CHAPTER 20:
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND THE NAPOLEONIC ERA, 1789-1815
|
ancien regime |
Louis XV |
parlement |
|
Maupeou |
Louis XVI |
Marie
Antoinette |
|
War
of American Independence |
Royal
General Farms |
Turgot |
|
Necker |
Calonne |
Assembly
of Notables |
|
de Brienne |
Estates-General |
Third
Estate |
|
Alexander
I |
Sieyès |
Mirabeau |
|
National Assembly |
Oath
of the Tennis Court |
Bastille |
|
National
Guard |
Lafayette |
Night
of 4 August |
|
départements |
Pius VI |
emigres |
|
Civil
Constitution of the Clergy |
nonjuring
priests |
Olympe
de Gouges |
|
Constitution
of 1791 |
taille |
assignats |
|
Convention |
Seven
Years’ War |
Treaty
of Paris (1763) |
|
Toussaint L'Ouverture |
sans-culottes |
Jacobins |
|
Girondins |
Plain |
Mountain |
|
Legislative
Assembly |
Robespierre |
Danton |
Committee of Public Safety
|
guillotine
|
Directory
|
|
Cult
of the Supreme Being |
Thermidorian
Reaction |
Napoleon |
|
First
Consul |
Concordat
of 1801 |
Friedland |
|
Continental
System |
Napoleonic
Code |
Peninsular
War |
|
Battle
of Nations |
Waterloo |
cahiers de doleance |
|
Declaration
of the Rights of Man and the Citizen |
|
gabelle |
KEY GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS
Elba
|
St. Helena
|
Haiti
|
|
Westphalia |
Corsica |
Vendée |
|
Varennes |
Metz |
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QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER
1. Which
attributes of France’s old regime were demolished by the Revolution? Which
endured?
2. What
was the social composition of the groups that participated in the French
Revolution? Was the Revolution
primarily the product of a single class or of the French people as a whole?
3. Compare
the first and second phases of the French Revolution. How were the seeds of radical political change sown in the first
phase?
4. Given
the numerous foreign and domestic challenges that France faced in the spring of
1793, was the Reign of Terror politically justifiable? If not, why not?
5. Given
the revolution's desire to establish liberty, equality, and fraternity for all
men, why were the revolutionaries so reluctant to give women the same
privileges?
6. Did
Napoleon further the accomplishments of the French Revolution? Or did he subvert or pervert them?