World History GabrieIino H.S.
CHAPTER 3 REVIEW SHEET: THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND NAPOLEON
DIRECfIONS: On a separate sheet of paper, complete the answers to each of the items below. This test will be based on Chapter 3, notes, readings, videos, handouts, etc. 1. Define each of the following terms: ancien regime, estate, bourgeoisie, urban, deficit spending,
cahier, faction, proclaimed, emigre, sans-culotte, republic, suffrage, radical, guillotine, nationalism,
plebiscite, annex, guerrilla warfare, scorched-earth policy, abdicate, legitimacy.
2. Describe each of the three estates? Who belonged to each and what privileges and/ or burdens did each have? 3. Why was Louis XVI was forced to dismiss his financial advisor, Jacques Necker?
4. Why did Louis XVI say he was calling the meeting of the Estates General?
5. What new group was created as a result of the Estate-General?
6. By swearing the Tennis Court Oath what were members of the Third Estate promising to do?
7. What event first demonstrated that popular protest would playa role in the French Revolution?
8. What is the name for the period of time that followed the peasant revolts against their lords?
9. How did the women of Paris show their anger and frustration with the bread shortage?
10. What did the Declaration of the Rights of Man state?
11. How were the Declaration of the Rights of Man similar to the Declaration of Independence?
12. What kind of goverrunent did the Constitution of 1791 set up?
13. How did European monarchs and nobles feel about the French Revolution?
14. How did the National Assembly hope to payoff the huge government debt?
15. How were sans-culottes different from Jacobins?
16. When the new National Convention met in 1792, what form of government did the radicals
create?
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17. To deal with the threats to France, what did the National Convention create?
18. What was the goal of the mass levy of 1793?
19. During the Reign of Terror, what was Robespierre trying to do?
20. What was the dominant political force during the Directory phase of the Revolution?
21. How did Napoleon gain power in France in 1799?
22. What part of his background helped Napoleon rise to power?
23. What is the name for the uniform set of laws that were implemented during Napoleon's reign?
24. Which country was able to remain outside of Napoleon's European empire?
25. What war tactic helped the Russians defeat Napoleon?
26. What were the causes Napoleon's downfall (the first time)?
27. What were the chief (main) goals of the Congress of Vienna?
28. How did the Congress of Vienna promote the principle of legitimacy?
29. What was the Concert of Europe?
30. In what was are the French and American Revolutions different? In what ways are they similar?