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| (1769-1821) on Corsica into a family of lesser nobles. The annexation of Corsica by France in 1768 would allow ________ to attend military colleges in France. | ||
| (1748-1836) author of "What is the Third Estate?" and one of the Directors (executive positions) within the Directory, the French government from (1795-9). As this government encountered increasing problem, Sieyes came to believe a strong military leader was now necessary to govern France and he supported the coup d'etat (1799) that would eventually bring Napoleon to power. | ||
| written by Abbe Sieyes | ||
| Napoleon making an agreement with Pope Pius VII; required both the refactory clergy and those who had accepted the revolution to resign; declared "Catholicism is the religion of the great majority of French citizens." | ||
| established the supremacy of the state (French gov.) over the church. | ||
| the French government from 1795-9 | ||
| 1. All privleges based on birth abolished-- primogentiture abolished still 2. The code effectively granted leal equality to the middle class and thus institutionalized the revolutionary principle of equality 3. It also institutionalized women's secodnary status | ||
| Horatio Nelson destroys the French fleet at Battle of ______. | ||
| Napoleon's greatest victory, defeated the combined Austrian and Russian forces of Austerlitz. Battle of __________. He was in control of everything north of Rome. He was recognized as King of Italy. | ||
| Nelson destroyed the combined French and Spanish fleets at the Battle of _________ off the Spanish coast. It ended all French hope of invading Britain and guaranteed British control of the sea for the rest of the war. | ||
| Napoleon made extensive political changes in Germany, He organized the _____________ __ ___ _____, which included most of the Western German princes. | ||
| badly hurt the European economies. Napoleon rejected advice to turn his empire into a free-trade area. Instead, his tariff policies favored France, increased the resentment of foreign merchants, and made them less willing to enforce the system and more ready to engage in smuggling. | ||
| literally means overthrowing the state | ||
| admerial who destroyed the French fleet at Abukir | ||
| In 1804, a __________(or vote; yes or no) of the French voters approved a new constitution which declared Napoleon as Emperor of the French | ||
| the right of an eldest son to inherit most or all of his parent's property | ||
| Napoleon's foreign minister, who termed the act of accusision of the duke participating in a royalist, "worse than a crime-- a blunder" because it provoked foreign opposition. | ||
| the Russian, the Austrian, and Ottomans joined Brtain to form the ______ _________ against France. | ||
| William PItt the younger persuaded Russia and Austria to move once more against France, | ||
| German princes withdrawal from the ____ _____ ______ led Francis II to dissolve that ancient political body and henceforth to call himself Emperor Francis I of Austria | ||
| Tsar Alexander I and Napoleon signing the ______ __ ______, which confirmed Frances gains. Prussian lost half of its territory. |
