Conflict, Crisis, and Reaction in the Late 18th Century

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  1. 1. The Civil Constitution of the Clergy was an attempt to reign in the power of this important religious institution in France
  2. 3. This Revolutionary governmental body with an ironic name called for mass executions and mas conscription into the French Army
  3. 5. French term used in the Revolution for the old type of government with the king and nobles dominating politics
  4. 11. This city in modern Belgium was the site of Napoleon’s final defeat by Coalition forces led by the Duke of Wellington
  5. 12. These were the more than three hundred courts of law in France before the time of the Revolution
  6. 13. Napoleon’s invasion of the European power marked the beginning of the end of his Empire
  7. 14. Napoleon reinstated this long-standing French practice of government review, suppression, and prohibition of certain types of writing
  8. 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
  9. 18. This Frenchman is considered a hero both in France and in the US; he helped draft the Declaration of the Rights of Man
  10. 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
  11. 21. This device was used heavily in the French Revolution as the primary form of execution
  12. 22. This was the name of Napoleon’s attempted blockade of British maritime activity which was intended to weaken that kingdom
  13. 26. This secularizing process included the renaming of towns and streets and changing the number of the days of the week
  14. 27. This English conservative thinker warned of the dire and consequences of the chaos of the French Revolution
  15. 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
  16. 29. Napoleon brought a public form of this to the different areas of his empire; It had an early form of national curriculum standards
  17. 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
  18. 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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  1. 2. the Constitution of 1791 attempted to establish this type of government in France similar to what existed in Britain
  2. 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
  3. 6. This was one of napoleon’s seven codes; it recognized the principle of equality of all citizens before the law
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 9. The storming of this prison-fortress on July 14, 1789 is still celebrated as the French national holiday
  7. 10. This leader of the French Revolution grew more radical as time went on; he was eventually shot in the jaw and then guillotined
  8. 15. This English admiral handed Napoleon an early defeat at Trafalgar; he is considered a national hero of Britain today
  9. 16. The name of a legislative body in France comprised of three different groups representing the nobility, the clergy, and the commoners
  10. 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
  11. 23. The king of France during the Revolution; he and his wife Marie Antoinette were both both executed
  12. 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
  13. 25. this French military officer first proved himself at the Siege of Toulon and eventually became the head of the French Empire
  14. 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.
  15. 32. This movement across the arts preserved the Enlightenment’s focus on the individual but rejected its overwhelming emphases on reason and logic