Transcript World History Review - Bismarck Public Schools

WORLD HISTORY
REVIEW
Short Answer
Short Answer Questions
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WORLD HISTORY
REVIEW
Who was accused by being frivolous and extravagant? She was the queen of
France who was executed.
Marie Antoinette
Who was a journalist who demanded equal rights in her Declaration of the Rights of
Woman but since she opposed the terror she was executed?
Olympe de Gouges
Who headed the French National Guard and was “hero of two worlds?”
Marquis de Lafayette
Who was the “financial wizard” advisor for the king of France who wanted to tax the
clergy and nobles?
Jacques Necker
Who was the king of France when the French Revolution broke out? He was
sentenced to death by one vote for being a traitor of France.
Louis XVI
Who was nicknamed the Corsican Upstart who favored the Jocobins?
Napoleon Bonaparte
Who is the person who was a great speaker and was ordered to be killed by
Robespierre? When executed he said, “Show the people my head, it is worth
seeing.”
Georges Dantan
Who painted paintings such as the Tennis Court Oath and Napoleon’s coronation?
Jacques Louis David
Arthur Wellesley later known as _______ led British troops in Spain and won at
Waterloo.
Duke of Wellington
Czar ____ of Russia was disturbed by the alliance of France and Austria, the
Continental System and the enlargement of the Dutch of Warsaw.
Alexander I
What is French word for the “old order?”
Ancien Regime
What Estate numbered at 27 million and was made up of middle class and poor?
Third Estate
What is when the government spends more than what it takes in from revenue?
Deficit Spending
The king ordered troops to Paris, people of Paris started to panic and mob killings happened, what is
this called?
Great Fear
What was a medieval fortress was stormed by over 800 Parisians on July 14, 1789?
Bastille
What Estate was the church, owned 10% of the land and enjoyed wealth and privilege?
First Estate
What is the French word for middle class?
Bourgeoisie
With bankruptcy looming, bread riots, nobles fear of taxes the king of France called for the meeting
of _____ for the first time in 175 years.
Estates General
“never to separate and to meet wherever the circumstances might require until we have established
a sound and just constitution.” This quote is known as what?
Tennis Court Oath
What were tales of attacks on villages and towns? Other rumors were government troops seizing
peasant crops. This happened when Louis sent the army outside of Paris.
Great Fear
What city was the revolution center in France?
Paris
What announced that people are “born and remain free and equal in rights,” and was modeled after
the Declaration of Independence?
Declaration of the Rights Man and Citizen
Who were revolutionaries who pushed the revolution to more radical action? Did not wear pants
without knee britches.
Sans-culottes
What was a twelve-member committee that had almost absolute power as it battled to save the
Revolution?
Committee of Public Safety
What was it called when the twelve-member committee wanted to kill those who opposed the
revolution?
Terror or Great Terror
What was the Red, White, Blue badge that was worn by the National Guard?
Tricolor
Who were nobles, clergy and others who fled France and its revolutionary forces?
Émigrés
Sans-culotts
What people were middleclass and intellectuals that formed a revolutionary political club that favor
republican government?
Jacobins
Who was known as “the incorruptible,” he was a shrewd lawyer and politician who rose to power.
Maximilian Robespierre
What was a more humane method of execution of beheading, it was used instead of the ax?
Guillotine
What is the “La Marseilles”?
French National Anthem
What idea worked against Napoleon as he tried to control Europe? It is also one of the MAIN
causes of WWI.
Nationalism
What Caribbean nation rebelled against Napoleon? The loss of this land forced Napoleon to sell
Louisiana to the United States.
Haiti
What victory of Napoleon was considered his finest? He defeated Austria and Russia.
Austerlitz
What battle was fought off the southwest coast of Spain, where Horatio Nelson destroyed the
combined Spanish and French fleet?
Battle of Trafalgar
Who was the revolutionists who needed medical baths for his skin condition? He was killed by
Charlotte Corday. He edited the paper “Friend of the People.”
Jean Paul Marat
What French phrase is “blow to the state”?
Coup d’état
What called for equality of all citizens before the law, religious toleration and the advancement based
on merit? Women lost rights and slavery was re-imposed.
Napoleonic Code
Napoleon’s ______ ______ went from over 400,000 men to 10,000 after his invasion of Russia.
Grand Army
Napoleon set up the _______, which close all European ports to British goods.
Continental System
What war between the British and Americans started because the British would board American
ships and took sailors that were British citizens?
War of 1812
After Napoleon’s defeat he had at the end of his 100 Days, he was exiled to where?
St. Helena
What was the meeting of world powers to ensure stability in Europe?
Congress of Vienna
Berlin Conference
Austria, Russia and Prussia formed the ____ ____ to stop revolutions in Europe that promoted
liberty, equality and fraternity.
Holy Alliance
____________ were people born in Spain that were removed from power in the Spanish colonies in
the Americas.
Pininsulares
What war between the British and Americans started because the British would board American
ships and took sailors that were British citizens?
War of 1812
After Napoleon’s defeat he had at the end of his 100 Days, he was exiled to where?
St. Helena
What was the meeting of world powers to ensure stability in Europe?
Congress of Vienna
Berlin Conference
Austria, Russia and Prussia formed the ____ ____ to stop revolutions in Europe that promoted
liberty, equality and fraternity.
Holy Alliance
____________ were people born in Spain that were removed from power in the Spanish colonies in
the Americas.
Pininsulares
The Spanish conducted _______, or hit and run raids against the French.
Guerrilla Warfare
What battle was fought June 18, 1815 where Napoleon was defeated the combined
British and Prussian armies?
Battle of Waterloo
To turn the clock back to 1792 the Congress restored _____ in France by having
Louis XVIII at king and restoring monarchs in other countries.
Legitimacy
____________ of Austria was the most influential person at the meeting that
established a new European order.
Klemens von Metternich
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