Transcript Napoleon

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 What
was the most interesting thing that you
learned about Napoleon yesterday?
 How
do you think Europe will rebuild
themselves after the rule of Napoleon?
 After
the French Revolution, what type of
government do you think France will have? Why do
you think they will have this type of government?
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Absolute/Constitutional Monarchy
Republic
Democracy
 Napoleon
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Created a French empire after the French Revolution.
 Coup
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d'état
The sudden overthrow of the gov’t.
 Battle
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Bonaparte
of Trafalgar
Napoleon’s only major naval defeat by the British.
 Scorched
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Burning fields and slaughtering livestock so nothing
would be left for the enemy to eat as they advanced.
 Battle
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of Waterloo
Battle in which Napoleon was defeated for good.
 Concert
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Earth Policy
of Europe
Ensured that nations would help one another if any
revolutions broke out.
 Nationalism
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Love/pride for one’s country.
 Napoleon
rose to success in
the military.
 Napoleon
lead a coup d’état
and seized power.
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He became 1st consul and began
acting like a dictator.
 Under
Napoleon’s leadership,
warring countries signed
peace agreements.
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Napoleon was free to restore
order in France.
 Creates
a better economy.
Collected taxes from all classes, creates a national banking
system, encouraged new industry.
 Ended corruption in the gov’t by making jobs based on
merit.
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 Pleases
all classes.
Recognized the influence of the Church, but rejected
Church control in national affairs.
 Encouraged émigrés to return.
 Recognized the right of the peasants to own land.
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 Napoleonic
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Code
Eliminated many injustices.
“Order, security and efficiency”
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Does limit freedom of speech and press.
 Crowned
himself emperor.
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Lost the colony of Haiti.
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Built the largest empire since the
Romans.
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Put family members in charge of
other countries.
The Battle of Trafalgar
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To get money, Napoleon sold the
Louisiana Territory to the U.S. in
1803.
Ensured the supremacy of the British
navy.
Forced Napoleon to give up his plans
of invading Britain.
The French Empire was huge but
unstable.
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Only able to control it for 5 years.
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The Continental System
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Napoleon set up a blockade against Britain.
Britain responded with its own blockade.
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Created scarcity of goods, which drove prices up.
U.S. and Britain fight in the War of 1812.
The Peninsular War
Napoleon removed the Spanish king and put his own brother
on the throne.
 Spain practices guerrilla warfare.
 Nationalism was growing in other countries in effort of trying
to defeat Napoleon.
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Invasion of Russia
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Napoleon marched more than 420,000 soldiers into Russia.
The Russians practiced a scorched-earth policy.
After leaving Moscow, the Russians attacked Napoleon’s
retreating army.
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Only 10,000 soldiers were left.
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Napoleon managed to raise another
army, but many European countries
were fighting in alliance against
Napoleon.
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The allied forces easily defeated his
inexperienced army.
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Napoleon was exiled to the island of
Elba.
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Louis XVIII became king
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He escaped and within days was
emperor of France again.
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Europe got ready to fight Napoleon again.
Waterloo, Belgium
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Very unpopular
The British and Prussians defeat Napoleon.
This time, Napoleon was exiled to St.
Helena.
 Containment
of France
 Made the weak
countries around
France stronger.
 Prevented France from
overpowering weaker
nations.
 Balance
of Power
France remained a major
but diminished European
power.
 But, no country in Europe
could easily overpower
another.
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 Legitimacy
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The ruling families of
several European countries
regained their thrones.
 The
Congress of Vienna was very
successful.
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Agreements were fair enough that no
country was left bearing a grudge.
 Created
the Concert of Europe in
hopes of preventing future wars.
 Nationalism
spreads.
 Explain
the positive and negative effects of
Napoleon’s rule of France.
 How
does Europe rebuild and align itself
after the fall of Napoleon.