Transcript 3chapter10mcdelilahkennyx

The treaty of Campo Formio, where
German princes of the Left Bank of the
Rhine were to receive new territories on
the Right bank, resulted in
a) A scramble that was later named the
“shame of the princes”
b) Bribery to win French Support against other
Germans
c) Number of states in the Holy Roman Empire
was greatly reduced
d) All of the above
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D: All of the above
› The German rulers, not really caring about
opposing Napoleon or nationalism,
competed with each other with the use of
bribery [thus why Talleyrand made so much
money]. Many free cities disappeared,
annexed by their neighbors, many Catholic
Holy Roman Empire states were annexed.
What was the purpose of the Continental
System
a) Crush the Holy Roman Empire economically
b) Crush Russia [Alexander I] economically
c) Crush Great Britain economically
d) None of the above
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C: Crush Great Britain economically
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The Continental System was a blockade aimed
at denying the British any trading access to ports
in Europe, theoretically destroying British trade
and denying them the money they needed to
fund Napoleons enemies on mainland Europe.
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Although in theory it seemed a good idea and if it had
worked could have ended the Napoleonic Wars, in
reality it proved ineffectual and led Napoleon into the
Peninsular War and most calamitously into the 1812
invasion of Russia which would eventually lead to his
defeat
Charles Maurice de
Talleyrand-Périgord was
 A) A traitor
 B) Napoleon’s foreign
minister
 C) Really rich
 D) All of the above
D: All of the above
 Alexander I, Russian leader, was taken
aside by Talleyrand, Napoleon’s foreign
minister. Talleyrand said that Napoleon
was overreaching himself and advised
the Tsar to wait [in talking with
Napoleon]
› Note that he was acting like an aristocrat of
the pre-nationalistic Old Regime, seeing his
own country as only one part of the whole of
Europe
 Believing a balance among the several parts
to be necessary and holding the peace would
be possible only when the exaggerated
position of French power should be reduced
Napoleon Bonaparte
 A) considered himself a conservative
 B) considered himself a liberal
 C) Didn’t believe in the Enlightenment
 D) Did believe in the Enlightenment
 E) A and C
 F) B and D
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F) B and D
› Napoleon considered himself a great
reformer and man of the Enlightenment.
 He even called his system “liberal,” though the
word to him meant almost the opposite of
what it meant to later liberals
The Treaties of the Tilsit said
A) France pledged to aid
Russia against
Ottoman Turkey
B) Russia agreed to join
the Continental System
against the British
Empire
C) Alexander to enter into
the Anglo-Russian War
and to instigate the
Finnish War against
Sweden in order to
force Sweden to join
the Continental System
D) All of the above
E)
None of the above
D: All of the above
No need to explain 
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J.G. Herder, a German theologian who
wrote Ideas on the Philosophy of the history
of Mankind, believed all of the following
ideas of nationalism EXCEPT:
A) Culture must arise from the life of the common people, the
Volk
B) German ways were indeed different from French
C) Nations are in conflict and there is a distinct way to prove
one culture better than another
D) nations had unique cultures individually and grow in
different ways
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C) Nations are in conflict and there is a
distinct way to prove one culture better
than another
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J.G. Fitche, a German philosopher, believes
all of the following EXCEPT:
A) The inner spirit of the individual creates its own
moral universe
B) The idea of Terror, that of “forcing men to be
free” should be not be accepted
C) The French Revolution should be enthusiastically
approved or supported
D) There was an ineradicable German spirit, a
primordial and immutable national character
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B) The idea of Terror, that of “forcing men
to be free” should be not be accepted
* Fichte accepted the idea of Terror
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Put the following events in chronological
order:
1. Napoleon’s troops retreat from Moscow
2.The Congress of Vienna assembles
3. Napoleon driven back to France because of The Battle of Nations (Leipzig)
4. The Quadruple Alliance forms
5. Napoleon declines the Frankfurt Proposals
A) 1, 3, 2, 4, 5
B) 1, 3, 5, 4, 2
C) 2, 5, 1, 3, 4
D) 2, 4, 5, 1, 2
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B) 1, 3, 5, 4, 2
› 1. Napoleon’s troops retreat from Moscow
› 3. Napoleon driven back to France because
of The Battle of Nations (Leipzig)
› 5. Napoleon declines the Frankfurt Proposals
› 4. The Quadruple Alliance forms
› 2.The Congress of Vienna assembles
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What happened to Poland after 1815?
A) Alexander reduced Poland to his own Polish
Kingdom and created “Congress Poland”
B) It ended up in the hands of the French with
Napoleon retaining a Grand Duchy
C) Poland was transformed into a free trade
state that allowed access to all European
nations
D) None of the above
• A) Alexander reduced Poland to his own Polish
Kingdom and created “Congress Poland”
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The Peace of Vienna was all of the
following EXCEPT:
A) A congress of representatives from all of Europe that
restored the European state system
B) a treaty that included generally – the Treaty of Vienna
itself, the treaties of Paris, and the British and colonial
settlement
C) a treaty that sought to smooth over the issues of the
control of Poland and the Austro-Prussian dualism in
Germany
D) A treaty that gave satisfaction to nationalists and
democrats, and even to many liberals, especially in
Germany
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D) A treaty that gave satisfaction to nationalists and
democrats, especially in Germany
* The treaty did not give any satisfaction to
nationalist and democrats and was seen as
a major disappointment to many liberals,
especially in Germany. The treaty resulted in
the transfer of peoples from government to
government without consideration of what
they wanted.