Transcript Napoleon`s Europe

Chapter 20.3
NAPOLEON’S EUROPE
Napoleon's Rise to Power
 Opportunities for Glory
 Napoleon became a significant war leaders during the
revolution at the age of 26
 The directory named him the commander of the French
interior
 France invaded Italy and won under Napoleon
 He also won much of Egypt as to disrupt the trade between
England and India
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Then the English struck back and defeated the entire French fleet
He kept this defeat out of the press and from the French people
so he could be a hero
Napoleon's Rise to Power
 Napoleon Seizes Power
 He was a national hero
 The Directory was weak and ineffective many thought royalist
would come place a monarch in France, or that a foreign power
would invade and defeat France
 Armed supporters of Napoleon forced the Directory to turn the
government over to Napoleon in a coup d’etat
 Structure of the republic was still in place but Napoleon
became a dictator
 French craved the order and stability that Napoleon promised
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 Napoleon Crowns Himself
 In 1804 French voted to declare France an empire making
Napoleon the emperor
 The Pope can to crown him however when the pope began to
place the crown on his head he took it and crowned himself
 This action told the world that no one gave Napoleon his
authority other than himself
 Desire for Empire
 He wanted to extend France’s empire and conquer Europe and
then the Americas
 He could not control his colonies in the Americas so he sold his
territory to the United States in the Louisiana Purchases and
focused on conquering Europe
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 The Napoleonic Wars Begin
 Napoleonic Wars were an continuous of the wars fought
during the French revolution
 France was the greatest power at the time under Napoleon
 Mainly between France and Great Britain
 GB funded other nations to help stop Napoleons surge through
Europe
 Napoleon tried to defeat GB but failed because he was better
on land than on sea
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 The Continental System
 GB depended on foreign trade
 Napoleon wanted to disrupt this trade so he could weaken GB
and their funds which kept their rebellion from him happening
 He planned the blockade called the Continental Systempreventing French or their allies from trading with GB
 GB made all neutral ships stop in their ports for permission to
trade with France
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 The Peninsular War
 Portugal was neutral in the Napoleonic Wars
 Portugal refused to comply with then Continental System
 Napoleon sent troops to Portugal and took over the king
 He then invaded Spain and put his brother on the throne
 The Spanish rebelled in 1808
 GB sent troops to help the rebellion
 France sent more troops and won several victories over both
armies
 However guerrilla warfare broke out with the Spanish peasants
 Napoleon was pinned down in Spain and eventually had to pull
his troops out
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 Napoleon Dominates Europe
 Napoleon took control of most of Europe through treaties,
alliances, and war
 The only nations free were GB, Sweden, Portugal, and the
Ottoman Empire
 He usually put his family in charge or places he conquered
Napoleon’s Policies
 Reform of Church-State Relations
 Signed the Concordat which recognized the influence of the
Roman Catholic Church in France but did not return any
control over national affairs to the church
 Economic Reform
 EST the bank of France
 Better tax collection system
 Relatively financially stable under napoleon
Napoleon’s Policies
 Legal and Educational Reforms
 Created the Napoleonic code which made laws uniform across
the nation
 Freedom of press restricted
 Banned books and newspapers
 Code only applied to males
 Coded denied rights to women and gave husbands authorities
over their wives
 He established a network of high schools, universities, and
technical schools to train men for t future jobs
Napoleon’s Policies
 Napoleon’s Legacy
 Napoleon made some of the revolutionary ideas part of the
French government
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Democratic ideas of equality for the law and representative system
of government
He helped fuel nationalism- a sense of identity and unity as a
people in a certain area, country, or culture