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The Old Regime

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  • What do you call the common people of 18th century France?
    sans-culottes
  • Where was Napoleon exiled off the coast of Africa?
    Saint Helena
  • What year did Napoleon die?
    1821
  • Who was elected president of the Second French Republic, that was also Napoleon's nephew?
    Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Where was his last defeat in 1815?
    Waterloo
  • Name a country that also revolted in 1820-1830 and what happened?
    Student's answer
  • The Conspiracy of the equals was led by who and what group?
    Babeuf - Radicals
  • When was the new Constitution established?
    1795
  • What name did Napoleon give himself in 1804?
    Emperor of the French
  • What group of people wanted to restore the Bourbon dynasty?
    Royalists
  • Which countries was Napoleon against in the Battle of Leipzig? (4)
    Britain, Prussia, Russia and Austria
  • What were the 3 characteristics of the Conservative Order?
    Monarchy, Internationalism, Congresses
  • What did Napoleon do to Britain when they were his #1 enemy?
    Blocked British Trade: Continental Blockade
  • In 1792, which Kingdoms declared war on France?
    Austria and Prussia
  • What is a revolution?
    A sudden and seismic shift of one form of government to another
  • What was the motto of the French in the Age of Enlightenment?
    "Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité"
  • Who had all the power before the French Revolution?
    The King (Louis XVI)
  • Give me 1 of the series of measures that marked the end of The Old Regime
    1) abolishment of Feudal Rights 2) Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen 3)first constitution/constitutional monarchy
  • True or False: Napoleon's arrival marked the end of the French Revolution
    TRUE
  • Which battle with the British was Napoleon defeated?
    Battle of Trafalgar
  • Who was the leader of the Jacobins?
    Maximilien Robespierre
  • The Holy Alliance was composed of which countries?
    Prussia, Russia, Austria
  • What civil document made the French clergy civil servants?
    Civil constitution of the clergy
  • Which place did France attack on July 14, 1789?
    Bastille
  • Who were the radical revolutionaries?
    Jacobins
  • What destroyed The Old Regime?
    The French Revolution
  • In the birth of the French Republic, the people who control the assembly were called...
    Girondins
  • After the coup d'état in 1799, Napoleon became the
    First Consul or Consul for Life