The financial strain of servicing old debt and the excesses of the current royal court caused dissatisfaction with the monarchy and contributed to national unrest which culminated in the French Revolution of 1789. Napoleon Bonaparte provided the strong military leadership that was needed when factions within the French government decided to overthrow the Directorate. See what you know about his part in the revolution by taking up the test below.
Bourgeoisie
Second Estate
Third Estate
Peasants
French support for the American colonists.
A manufacturing slowdown.
Bad harvests.
High unemployment.
Secularized the Catholic Church in France.
Ended exemptions from taxation.
Restricted participation in the Legislative Assembly to the upper classes.
Established a constitution.
Because they were hurt by the rise in the cost of living
Because only men could be elected to the Assembly
Because they wanted more drastic solutions to problems
Because the government now controlled the Catholic Church
The imprisonment of Louis XVI.
The Reign of Terror of the Committee of Public Safety.
The execution of Louis XVI.
The fall of the Bastille.
Jean-Paul Marat
Maximilien Robespierre
The Mountain
The Girondins
The Jacobins continued to be in control.
The Reign of Terror ended.
Churches were allowed to reopen for public worship.
A new constitution was created.
Selected members of the Council of 500.
A group of men chosen by the electors to govern the country.
The executive committee of the Council of Elders.
Royalists who wanted to restore the monarchy.
Was one of seven codes of law.
Was a single law code for the entire nation.
Put into code all the radical laws of the revolution.
Undid all of the gains of the revolution.
Aid in the defeat of Napoleon.
Stir a desire in other European nations to join France.
Stir the patriotism of those opposed to the French.
Show other European nations the power of nationalism.
The formation of the Continental System
The British naval victory at Trafalgar
The capture of Paris
The invasion of Russia
Executed.
Exiled immediately to St. Helena.
Restored to power.
Crowned emperor.
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