Outline
I. Pre-Revolutionary Period
A. Traditional Aspects of Society in The Old Regime
B. New Forces Challenging The Old Regime
C. International Relations
II. The French Revolution - Reform of the Monarchy
A. Intro.
B. Tax Crisis
C. The Bourgeoisie and The Making of the Third Estate
D. The Popular Revolution
E. The Constitution of 1791
III. The French Revolution - The First French Republic
A. Intro.
B. The Fall of the Constitutional Monarchy
C. The Radical Republic
D. The Conservative Republic
IV. The Era of Napoleon
A. Intro.
B. The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte
C. Bonaparte's Reorganization of France 1799-1804
D. Napoleon's Wars
E. The Continental System
F. Reorganization of Europe
G. The Collapse of Napoleon's Empire
Identifications:
The French Revolution
Edmund Burke
Great Fear
The Mountain
Bastille
Girondists
Robespierre
Estates-General
Sansculouttes
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
Declaration of the Rights of Man
National Assembly
Tennis Court Oath
Jacques Necker
Reign of Terror
Thermidorian Reaction
The Directory
Constitution of the Year VIII
The Age of Napoleon
Admiral Nelson
Trafalgar
Abbe Sieyes
Napoleonic Code
Austerlitz
Continental System
Treaty of Tilsit
Hundred Days
Waterloo
Elba
St. Helena
Wellington
Congress of Vienna
Written Homework
Homework #1 - DUE DATE TBA
1. How did the financial crisis facing the French government lead to the
revolution?
2. Why may the insurrection of August 10, 1792 be called the "second" French
revolution?
3. Describe the events and significance of 9 Thermidor.
4. Idents: tithe-Estates General-Tennis Court Oath-assignats
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Homework #2 - DUE DATE TBA
1. Idents: Trafalgar-Leipzig-Elba-Concordat
2. In what ways did British naval superiority influence the course of the
Napoleonic Wars?
3. What was the Continental System?
4. How did Napoleon remake the maps of Germany and Italy?