FRENCH REVOLUTION/NAPOLEON STUDY GUIDE
NOTE: This is a study GUIDE. This information will not all appear on the test. There may also be something that appears on the test that is not on this sheet. This is meant to give you concepts and terms to think about. You should make sure not just to memorize them all, but to also make connections between the items listed below, to try to understand how they affect other terms.
Thinking
Enlightenment
Salon
Locke
Rousseau
Montesquieu
Hobbes
Voltaire
Social contract
What major views did the philosophers have on the state of nature? On the purpose of government?
How did these new ways of thinking help to cause the revolutionary atmosphere of the late Eighteenth Century?
Setting the Stage
Estates System
Louis XIV
Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
Estates-General
What led the peasants to the brink of revolt?
How did Louis and Marie’s lifestyle contribute to the collapse?
Revolution
National Assembly
Versailles
Tennis Court Oath
Bastille
Great Fear
Constitution of 1791
Why storm the Bastille?
What did the National Assembly/Tennis Court Oath demand?
Reaction and Terror
Emigres
Levee en masse
Robespierre
Danton
Marat
National Convention
Committee of Public Safety
Reign of Terror
Directory
Was there method to the madness? Why kill those they killed?
How did the political spectrum differ from 1791 to 1794?
What problems still existed in the Constitution of 1791?
What similarities did the Directory have to the Estates system?
Napoleon
Concordat of 1801
Battle of Moscow
Battle of Waterloo
Battle of Austerlitz
Elba
Hundred Days
St. Helena
Continental System
Louis XVIII
Congress of Vienna
Why accept Napoleon even though he was just like a king?
How did Napoleon consolidate power under his view?
What military innovations did Napoleon unleash on the rest of Europe?
What major mistakes did Napoleon make?
Nationalism and Revolution
Nationalism
Toussaint L’Overture
San Martin
Bolivar
1848 Insanity
What was similar about the process of Italian and German unification?
What problems did Latin American countries face during unification?
Describe the series of events that led to revolution in Latin America.
What was special about Haiti’s revolution?
What was unique about Brazil’s revolution?