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CLEP Western Civilization II: French Revolution And Napoleon
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CLEP Western Civilization II: French Revolution And Napoleon
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1. People who were not in the other two estates. merchants - peasants - and middle class. bourgeoisie.

2. Louis sent more troops to Paris and the people attacked this prison. They killed the guards and carried their heads around the city.

3. Nobles of the word and nobles of the robe. few taxes.

4. Owned some land. paid a lot of the taxes and they also had to pay tithes.

5. Countryside. wanted the monarchy.

6. Nobles were taking grain to scare the peseants into submission. Some peseants attacked - burning mansions - and killing some nobles.

7. Louis XVI wanted him to support him in the revolution. Louis tried to sneak out of France but was caught. The rumor was that he had been kidnapped. (not a true rumor - he was arrested)

8. The new name for the Notre Dame cathedral.

9. A name of the months created in the new calendar. ten-day week created and holidays removed. this calendar was no longer used in 1806.

10. Would not allow anyone to trade with Britain in order to ruin it.

11. Mass execution of men and women through drowning and the guillotine. 25 -000-50 -000 were killed.

12. Divided into territories between 1793 and 1795 and no longer existed until after WW I.

13. Napoleon invaded Russia. The Russian basically ruined the land so the French could not live there. 1 out of 6 got out of Russia. Napoleon had never experienced this before.

14. The new name of the Third Estate.

15. Area in Western France who questioned the authority of National Convention.

16. The best example of a country who had to reform after the war. this helped with the growth of nationalism in this country. 1814 had 270 -000 soldiers.

17. Luois XVI was killed by the new invention the Guillotine.

18. Originally the National Assembly. 1792 mobs invade this and made it allow all men to vote. They also ended the monarchy.

19. Laws in the U.S. to somewhat keep French revolutionaries from immigrating to America.

20. Political radicals who were in the Legislative Assembly and decided on war. Georges Jacques Danton and Jean Paul Marat.

21. 1787. called by Louis XVI. Wanted the first and second estates to agree on taxing the church and nobles. They refused. Banks stopped letting the king borrow money. 1788. King called for the Estate General.

22. This meant that the monarch shared power with the National Assembly and could not act beyond the powers granted him by the constitution. rea p. 45

23. Clergy. Did not pay any taxes.

24. 1807. Russia and Napoleon for some land. by 1810 they no longer wanted this treaty.

25. France was no longer constantly at war.