Flashcards for Napolean Bonaparte
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| 286813119 | Napolean | started as young general. Joined french leaders in a coup d' etat. Made every citizen pay taxes, made education free, and applied dictatorship before becoming Emperor of France | |
| 286813120 | 1802 | Napolean became consul for life in the year of_____. | |
| 286813121 | Abbe Sieyes | invites Napolean to become first consul of the republic | |
| 286813122 | "Confidence from below, Authority from above" | What is the famous quote from Abbe Sieyes that outlines his changed perspective after the French Revolution? (Original perspective was that people should have authority (--What is 3rd estate?).) | |
| 286813123 | Russia, Britain, Austria, Prussia | These countries formed the Quadruple Alliance: | |
| 286813124 | The Civil Code | reasserted 2 principles of the French Revolution --equality for all men and security of wealth/property | |
| 286813125 | Meritocracy | "A career open to all talents" --the belief that rulers should be chosen for their superior abilities and not because of their wealth or birth. | |
| 286813126 | Concordat | of 1801; gave Napolean political power and let Catholics practice religion freely | |
| 286813127 | gets rid of serfdom | What is one great thing that Napolean does? | |
| 286813128 | Egyptian Campaign | Napolean brought with him scientists and the Rosetta Stone with this: | |
| 286813129 | family monarchy | the power of the husband and father was absolute over the wife and children as Napoleon was over is subjects. women lost many of their rights during napoleon's rule, the clergy was kept under control by payment, and the freedom of speech was violated often. | |
| 286813130 | Code Napolean | Another name for The Civil Code | |
| 286813131 | Fouche | As minister of police, he organized a ruthlessly efficient spy system, which kept thousands of citizens under continual police surveillance | |
| 286813132 | Trafalgar | (October 1805) Britain's Admiral Nelson destroyed the combined French and Spanish navies. Nelson was killed but invasion of Britain now became impossible. | |
| 286813133 | Lord Nelson | English admiral who defeated the French fleets of Napoleon but was mortally wounded at Trafalgar (1758-1805) | |
| 286813134 | Confederation of the Rhine | A federation of German states organized under Napoleon I in July 1806. Formerly under the rule of the Holy Roman Empire, which was dissolved the same year, the new federation placed itself under the "protection" of Napoleon and was governed by one of his close allies. It quickly fell apart after Napoleon's defeat outside Leipzig in 1813 as member states abandonded the French and joined the German natinalist "war of liberation." | |
| 286813135 | Treaty of Tilsit | (1807) Agreement between Napoleon and Czar Alexander I in which Russia became an ally of France and Napoleon took over the lands of Prussia west of the Elbe as well as the Polish provinces. | |
| 286813136 | The Continental Systems | Unable to upset England's naval power, Napoleon convinces Russia, Prussia, Denmark, Portugal and Spain to boycott trade with England in an attempt to start them out. |
