Unit 5: Viva le Revolution… and Napoleon. How revolutionary was the French
Revolution?
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During the late 18th century, France changes the course of history forever. Balance of power, rights of
people, revolution and the limitations of leaders.
Assignment for a grade:
1. Following the pacing guide for chart. This is so you do not have A LOT of reading right before the
test!!!
a. Answer the questions associated with each chapter reading
b. Define the 3 most important terms (in your opinion) associated with each reading
c. Define the 3 most important people (in your opinion) associated with each reading
2. Fill out the Geopolitical locations attached
3. Fill out the Big Picture SPRITE chart attached for the unit.
NOTE: We will be covering a lot of this in class as well so if you get
confused or behind… it will be okay☺
Reading
Assignment # for
Pacing
1
2
3
Chapters in Textbook
or Handouts given
Kishlansky, Chapter
20, 590-595
Kishlanksy, Chapter
20, 596-603
Kishlanksy, Chapter
20, 603-606
Terms
Associated with
Reading
French Rev
1-28
French Rev
29-52
French Rev
53-56
Questions
Associated with
each Reading
French Rev
1-3
French Rev
1-5
French Rev
XX
Due Date to be
relevant for class
discussion
November 11
November 13
November 17
4
5
Kishlanksy, Chapter
20, 606-608
Kishlanksy, Chapter
20, 609-614
French Rev
57-84
Napoleon
1-52
French Rev
6
Napoleon
1-4
November 18
November 19
French Revolution Terms:
1. Jacques-Louis David
2. National Assembly
3. Batavian Revolution (Belgium)
4. Brabant Revolution (Holland)
5. Liege Revolution (Holland)
6. 1798 Irish Catholic Rebellion
7. American Revolution
8. Louis XV
9. Madame de Pompadour
10.Seven Years’ War
11.Parlement
12.Assembly of Notables
13.Apres moi, la deluge
14.ancien regime (Old Regime)
15.René de Maupeou
16.Louis XVI
17.Marie Antoinette
18.Estates General
19.First Estate
20.Second Estate
21.Third Estate
22.Bourgeoisie
23.Jacques Necker
24.Madame de Stael
25.cahiers de doléances
26.Lettre de cachet
27.Tennis Court Oath
28.Abbé Sieyès, What is the Third
Estate?
29.“Age of Montesquieu”
30.Storming of the Bastille
31.Tri-color flag
32.Equality, Liberty, Fraternity
33.corvée
34.“Great Fear”
35.Seigniorial rights
36.Women’s march to Versailles
37.Declaration of the Rights of Man
and Citizen
38.Saint Domingue, Toussaint
L’Ouverture
39.Olympe de Gouges, The Rights of
Woman
40.Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of
the Rights of Woman
41.Marquis de Condorcet
42.83 Departments
43.Gallican Church
44.Civil Constitution of the Clergy,
1790
45.“refractory clergy”
46.Flight to Varennes
47.Assignats
48.Declaration of Pillnitz
49.War of the First Coalition
50.Brunswick Manifesto
51.Edmund Burke, Reflections on the
Revolution in France
52.Thomas Paine, Rights of Man
53.“Age of Rousseau”
54.sans-culottes
55.storming of the Tuleries
56.Legislative Assembly
57.National Convention
58.September Massacres
59.The First French Republic
60.Death of Louis XVI
61.Guillotine, “scythe of equality”
62.Mountain
63.Jacobins
64.Girondins
65.Maximilien Robespiere
66.Louis Saint-Juste “angel of death”
67.Lazare Carnot “organizer of victory”
68.Georges-Jacques Danton
69.Committee of Public Safety
70.Jean-Paul Marat/Charlotte Cordray
71.Reign of Terror
72.Law of Suspects
73.Émigrés
74.Law of the Maximum
75.lèvee en masse
76.The War in the Vendée
77.Enragés/ Jacques Hébert,
Hébertistes
78.Cult of the Supreme Being
79.“Temple of Reason”
80.death of Marie Antoinette
81.Thermidorian Reaction
82.The Directory
83.Conspiracy of Equals
84.Conscription
French Revolution Questions:
1. What social, political and economic factors formed the background to the French Revolution?
2. To what extent was the French nobility responsible for the crisis that destroyed the Old Regime?
3. How did the commoners, men and women, transform a crisis of government into a revolution?
4. How did the events of 1789 result in a constitutional monarchy in France?
5. How did the new constitution affect the various members of French society at home and in the
colony of Saint-Domingue?
6. How and why did the Revolution take a radical turn at home and in the colonies?
Napoleonic Era Terms:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Giant or Midget”
Enlightened Despot?
Italian Campaign (War of the 1st
Coalition)
10.Concordat of 1801
11.Plebiscite-general referendum
12.First Consul for Life
13.War of the Second Coalition
14.Treaty of Lunéville
15. Treaty of Amiens
16.War of the Third Coalition
17.Francisco Goya-Spain
18.Battle of Trafalgar
19.Confederation of the Rhine
20.Treaty of Tilsit
21.Lord Horatio Nelson
22.Battle of Austerlitz
23.Arc de Triomphe
24.Continental System
25.Berlin Decree
26.Order in Council
27.Milan Decree
28.Grand Empire
29.Empire Period or The First Empire
30. Death of Duke of Enghien
31.Bank of France
5. Egyptian Campaign
6. Coup d’Etat Brumaire
7. “the Age of Voltaire”
8. Consulate Period
9. First Consul
32. Madame de Stael
33.Napoleonic Code
34.Careers Open to Talent
35.Peninsular War
36.Russian Campaign
37.Battle of Borodino
38.War of the Fourth Coalition
39.War of the Fifth Coalition
40.War of the Sixth Coalition
41.Battle of Leipzig (or Battle of
Nations)
42.Frankfurt Proposals
43.Quadruple Alliance
44.Napoleon II ?
45.Louis XVIII-Bourbon
46.Charter of 1814
47.“First” Treaty of Paris, 1814
48.Elba
49.Hundred Days
50.Battle of Waterloo
51.Duke of Wellington
52.St. Helena
Napoleonic Era Questions:
1. Why did Napoleon Bonaparte assume control of France?
2. What did Napoleon accomplish in France?
3. What factors led to his downfall?
4. How did the new republic of Haiti gain independence from France?
BIG PICTURE: To what extent did each of the following groups succeed in achieving their goals during
the French Revolution (1789-1799) and Napoleonic Era (1799-1815)?
USING THE CHART, THINK OF AT LEAST ONE EXAMPLE OF HOW THE TIME PERIOD OF
REVOLUTION AND EMPIRE CHANGES THE SITUATION FOR SOCIAL CLASSES IN FRANCE
FROM THE ANCIEN REGIME TO POST NAPOLEON IN EACH OF THE FOLLOWING
CATEGORIES. THINK SPRITE IF THAT HELPS☺
Social class
Age of
Age of Rousseau
Age of Voltaire
Post Napoleon
(Republic)
(Napoleon)
Montesquieu
(Constitutional
Monarchy)
1789-1792
Monarchy
Clergy
Nobility
Bourgeoisie
1792-1799
1799-1815
Urban
working class
Peasants
Women
Curve component:
In order to receive a 10% curve on your test (which you want by the way
because my tests are hard) complete the following activities to turn in.
1. Define at least 50% of the terms associated with each reading. Make these into flashcards.
2. Read your review book and complete at least 1 review activity. Print off or email to Wells.
3. Create or find an FRQ based on unit. Brainstorm the answer.