Conflict, Crisis, and Reaction in the Late 18th Century
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- 1. The Civil Constitution of the Clergy was an attempt to reign in the power of this important religious institution in France
- 3. This Revolutionary governmental body with an ironic name called for mass executions and mas conscription into the French Army
- 5. French term used in the Revolution for the old type of government with the king and nobles dominating politics
- 11. This city in modern Belgium was the site of Napoleon’s final defeat by Coalition forces led by the Duke of Wellington
- 12. These were the more than three hundred courts of law in France before the time of the Revolution
- 13. Napoleon’s invasion of the European power marked the beginning of the end of his Empire
- 14. Napoleon reinstated this long-standing French practice of government review, suppression, and prohibition of certain types of writing
- 17. This female member of the Girondins wrote The Declaration of the Rights of Women and was eventually executed as an enemy of the Revolution
- 18. This Frenchman is considered a hero both in France and in the US; he helped draft the Declaration of the Rights of Man
- 20. Life at this French palace was so expensive and lavish that it became a symbol of the corruption of the nobility before the Revolution
- 21. This device was used heavily in the French Revolution as the primary form of execution
- 22. This was the name of Napoleon’s attempted blockade of British maritime activity which was intended to weaken that kingdom
- 26. This secularizing process included the renaming of towns and streets and changing the number of the days of the week
- 27. This English conservative thinker warned of the dire and consequences of the chaos of the French Revolution
- 28. These wealthy members of the Third Estate were the early leaders of the French Revolution; they formed a new middle class between the peasants and the nobility
- 29. Napoleon brought a public form of this to the different areas of his empire; It had an early form of national curriculum standards
- 31. This political faction during the French revolution was somewhat more moderate than the Jacobins; many of their number were denounced and executed as being against the Revolution
- 33. This five member governmental body held executive power at the end of the Revolution; it was comprised mostly of members of the bourgeoisie and ended when Napoleon took power
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- 2. the Constitution of 1791 attempted to establish this type of government in France similar to what existed in Britain
- 4. The name of the French national anthem; this song was originally sung as Revolutionary French armies went to defend themselves against Austria and Prussia
- 6. This was one of napoleon’s seven codes; it recognized the principle of equality of all citizens before the law
- 7. This period during the French Revolution was the most bloody; Robespierre hoped that it would root out and eliminate all anti-revolutionary sentiment in France
- 8. French funding for this war in the New World was part of the cause of the terrible state of the finances for the French kingdom before the Revolution
- 9. The storming of this prison-fortress on July 14, 1789 is still celebrated as the French national holiday
- 10. This leader of the French Revolution grew more radical as time went on; he was eventually shot in the jaw and then guillotined
- 15. This English admiral handed Napoleon an early defeat at Trafalgar; he is considered a national hero of Britain today
- 16. The name of a legislative body in France comprised of three different groups representing the nobility, the clergy, and the commoners
- 19. The French monarchy had acquired an enormous amount of this; the strain it caused on the finances of the nation was a major cause of the Revolution
- 23. The king of France during the Revolution; he and his wife Marie Antoinette were both both executed
- 24. This author and polemicist of the French Revolution often called for mass executions and violence while writing from a medicinal bath; he was eventually assassinated
- 25. this French military officer first proved himself at the Siege of Toulon and eventually became the head of the French Empire
- 30. This assembly of European nations at the end of the Napoleonic Wars re-drew the boundaries of the nations of Europe in order to create and preserve a new balance of power in Europe.
- 32. This movement across the arts preserved the Enlightenment’s focus on the individual but rejected its overwhelming emphases on reason and logic