The French Revolution and Napoleon Chapter 6 World History A Section 1 1. Know what bourgeoisie is and which groups of people made up the bourgeoisie. 2. Know what ancient regime was. 3. Know what many people believe the Bastille symbolized. 4. Know which groups of people and the percentage of the population that made up the three estates of French society. 5. Be able to cite several causes of the economic crisis in France. 6. Be able to describe what effect the national debt had on France. 7. Know why Louis XVI was forced to dismiss Jacques Necker. 8. Be able to describe the circumstances that led to the writing of the Tennis Court Oath. 9. Know which group of delegates broke away from the Estates-General and what they declared themselves to be.
10. Know which group within the Third Estate was the poorest. 11. Possible Essay Topic Be able to describe how social, economic and political conditions before the French revolution affected ordinary citizens and how they relate to the storming of the Bastille 12. Possible Essay Topic Be able to describe in detail why many nobles were dissatisfied with the French monarchy before the revolution and why they wanted the King to call the Estates-General. Section 2 13. Know who Marquis de Lafayette was. 14. Know who Olympe de Gouges was and what ultimately happened to her. 15. Know who Marie Antoinette was and several reasons why the French people hated her so badly. 16. Know who the sans-culottes were. 17. Know who the Emigres were. 18. Know who the Jacobins were. 19. Know what was used as a model when the Declaration of the Rights of Man was written.
20. Know who resisted the ideas of the Declaration of the Rights of Man. 21. Be able to describe how the National Assembly hoped to pay off the national debt. 22. Know how European monarchs and nobles felt about the French Revolution. 23. Know what the women who marched on Versailles demanded from the king. 24. Know what the Declaration of Pilnitz was and what other members of European royalty were prepared to do. 25. Possible Essay Topic Be able to compare and contrast the Jacobins and the sansculottes. Section 3 26. Know who Robespierre was. 27. Know what the guillotine was and during what period it was used. 28. Know why the revolutionaries wanted to abolish the monarchy 29. Know what the goal was of the mass levy of early 1793
30. Know what the Convention created to deal with the threats to France. 31. Know which group was the dominant political power during the directory phase of the Reign of Terror. 32. Know which group of people received voting rights when the radicals took control of the Legislative Assembly in 1792. 33. Be able to describe what Robespierre believed needed to take place if France was to achieve a republic of virtue. 34. Know under whose authority trials and executions were carried out during the reign of Terror 35. Possible Essay Topic Be able to describe the actions of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette and if you feel that they contributed to their own downfall. 36. Possible Essay Topic: Be able to describe the status of the Church in French society before the revolution and how the status of the church changed through the revolution. Section 4 37. Know who Napoleon was and what accomplishments are credited to him. 38. Know what guerrilla warfare was and how it was used. 39. Know what abdicate means.
40. Be able to cite several things that helped Napoleon rise to power. 41. Know what the Napoleonic Code was and what it was designed to reform. 42. Know which country Napoleon was unable to conquer. 43. Know what the Continental System was and for what reason it was developed. 44. Know what scorched-earth policy was and how it affected the war between France and Russia. 45. Know what the Congress of Vienna was and what goals they attempted to achieve. 46. Know what governing board Napoleon set up after he overthrew the directory. 47. Be able to cite several accomplishments made under the Napoleonic Code. 48. Know what was event the beginning of Napoleon s downfall. 49. Know where Napoleon s final defeat took place. 50. Possible Essay Question: Describe what nationalism is and how it was helpful to Napoleon and how it worked against him.