Chapter 18 Worksheet- The French Revolution

Terms to Identify
Antoinette, Marie
Assembly of Notables
assignats
Calonne, Alexandre de
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
Committee of Public Safety
commune
Convention
Declaration of Pillnitz
Directory
emigres
enrages
First Estate

Girondists
Gouges, Olympe de
Great Fear
Lafayette, Marquis de
levee en masse
Necker, Jacques
Robespierre, Maxilmilen
Second Estate
Storming of the Bastille
Tennis Court Oath
Thermidorian Reaction
Women's March on Versailles

Chapter Questions
What was the role of Louis XVI in the French Revolution?
Besides the monarchy, what other factors might be cited as causes of the French Revolution?
How was the Estates General transformed into the National Assembly?
How does the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen reflect the social and political values
of the Enlightenment?
What were the chief reforms instituted by the Constitution of 1791?
How did the sans-culottes, the working classes of Paris, become a factor in politics during the
French Revolution?
Why did France go to war with Austria in 1792?
What caused the Reign of Terror?
Textbook DQs
The Third Estate of a French City Petitions the King
Which of the following petitions relate to political rights and which to economic equality?
The slogan most associated with the French Revolution was Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,
Which of these petitions represents each of these values?
The National Assembly Decrees Civic Equality in France
What institutions and privileges are included in the feudal regime?

How do these decrees recognize that the abolitions of some privileges and former tax
arrangements will require new kinds of taxes and government financing to support religious,
educational and other institutions?
The Metric System (Secondary)
Why did the French revolutionary government introduce the metric system?
How did the metric system reflect the ideas of the Enlightenment ?
Why has most of the world accepted this system?
The Revolutionary Government Forbids Workers Organizations
Why are workers organizations declared to be contrary to the principles of liberty?
Why were guilds seen as one of the undesirable elements of the Old Regime?
What coercive powers are to be brought to bear against workers organizations?
After this legislation, how could workers confront the operation of the market economy?
French Women Petition to Bear Arms
How does this petition challenge the concept of citizenship in the Declaration of the Rights of
Man and Citizen?
How do these petitioners relate their demand to bear arms to their role as women in French
society?
How do these petitioners relate their demands to the use of all national resources against the
enemies of the revolution?
Burke Denounces the Extreme Measures of the French Revolution
To which of the major events in the French Revolution does Burke refer?
Why, by 1796, would Burke and others have emphasized the religious policies of the revolution?
Did Burke exaggerate the evils of the revolution?
Who was Burke trying to persuade?
The Paris Jacobin Club Alerts the Nations to Internal Enemies of the Revolution
How did the Jacobins use the war to call for action against their own domestic political enemies?
What real and imagined forces did they see threatening the revolution?
How did this circular constitute a smear campaign by one group of revolutionaries against other
groups?
What actions did the Jacobins seek?

The Convention Establishes the Worship of the Supreme Being

How does the declaration reflect the ideas of the Enlightenment?
Why has it been seen as establishing a civil religion?
What personal and social values was this religion supposed to nurture?

Boy, those French: They have a different word for everything! Steve Martin

Chapter 19 Worksheet- The Age of Napoleon

Terms to Identify
Battle of Austerlitz
Battle of Waterloo
Beauharnais, Josephine
Bonaparte, Napoleon
Bourbon
Byron, Lord
Carlyle, Thomas
categorical imperative
Consulate
Continental System
coup d'etat
Fichte, J. C.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Grimm, Jakob and Wilhelm
Herder, Johann Gottfried
Hundred Days
Louise, Marie
Methodism

Metternich, Klemens von

Napoleonic Code
Nelson, Horatio
Peace of Amiens
Quadruple Alliance
Romanticism
Schlegel, Friedrich
Second Coalition
Stein, Baron von
Stewart, Robert
Sturm und Drang
Talleyrand-Perigord, Charles Maurice de
Treaty of Campo Formio
Treaty of Chaumont
Treaty of Tilsit
Wellesley, Arthur
Wesley, John
Chapter Questions

How did Napoleon rise to power? What groups supported him?

What regions became part of Napoleon's empire? How did he rule his empire?
A motto of the French Revolution was "equality, liberty and fraternity." Did Napoleon's rule
more nearly fulfill or betray these ideals? What evidence can you give for each side of the
argument?
Who were the principal personalities, and what were the most significant problems, of the
Congress of Vienna?
What were the results of the Congress, and why were they significant?
How was the map of Europe altered by the Congress of Vienna?
Textbook DQs
Napoleon Makes Peace with the Papacy
Why was it to Napoleons political advantage to make this agreement with the papacy?
What privileges or advantages does the church achieve in this document?
Would the highest loyalty of a bishop who took the oath in Article 6 reside with the church or the
French state?
Sailors and Canned Food (Secondary)
What advantages did canning have over other methods of preserving food?

Why was the military interested in it?

How did canning become a part of everyday life?
Napoleon Advises His Brother to Rule Constitutionally
What benefits does Napoleon believe his conquest and subsequent rule by his brother will bring
to their new subjects?
Why does he believe that these, rather than military victory will achieve new loyalty?
How does Napoleon suggest playing off the resentment of the upper classes to consolidate
power?
What is the relationship between having a written constitution such as Napoleon is sending to his
brother and the power of public opinion that he mentions toward the close of the letter?
A German Writer Describes the War of Liberation
Why does Arndt claim each of these groups wanted war?
How does Arndt suggest the possibility of a united nation that did not actually exist?
Madame De Stael Describes the New Romantic Literature of Germany
How does Stael characterize the new Romantic school of poetry?
Why does she contrast it with the literature that had its roots in ancient Greece and Rome?
Why does she believe the new literature will continue to grow?
What is the relationship of the Middle Ages to the new poetry and other examples of the fine arts
touched by Romantic sensibilities?
Hegel Explains the Role of Great Men in History
How might the career of Napoleon have inspired this passage?
What are the antidemocratic implications of this passage?
In this passage, do great men make history or do historical developments make great men?
Why do you think Hegel does not associate this power of shaping history with women as well as
men?

The French complain of everything, and always. Napoleon Bonaparte