| Question | Answer |
| France’s chief tax | taille
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Site of Napoleon’s final defeat | waterloo
| Island off the coast of Tuscany, where Napoleon was first exiled | Elba
| Head of the Committee of Public Safety | Maximilien Robespierre
| Demanded equal political rights for women from the new French National Assembly | Olympe de Gouges
| Lawmaking body established by the Constitution of 1791 | Legislative Assembly
| A sudden overthrow of a government | coup d’etat
| Radical political group made up of the sans-culottes | Paris Commune
| Preserved most of the rights of the people gained by the revolution | Napoleonic Code
| Large network of political groups throughout France | Jacobin Club
| What was the Tennis Court Oath | vow to continue to meet until a constitution was produced
| What was the Civil Constitution of the Clergy | an agreement where bishops and priests were to be elected by the people and paid by the state
| Why was Louis XVI forced to accept the National Assembly’s decrees | because thousands of armed Parisian women descended on the palace and captured him and his family
| In his final battle, who was Napoleon defeated by | the Duke of Wellington
| The three major parts of Napoleon’s grand Empire were | the French Empire, the dependent states, and the allied states
| What are the two major reasons that Napoleon’s Grand Empire collapsed | the survival of Great Britain and the force of Nationalism
| The term sans-culottes implied that the members of this political group were | ordinary patriots without fine clothes
| The committee of public safety was given broad powers to do what | defend France from threats
| In its attempts to create a new order that reflected its belief in reason, what did the the National Convention do | pursued a policy of dechristianization, going so far as to adopt a new calendar
| Napoleon’s coup d’etat overthrew what government to establish his consulate | Directory
| The storming of this began the French Revolution | Bastille
| Island to which Napoleon was exiled after his final defeat | St. Helena
| Wife of King Louis XVI | Marie Antoinette
| Napoleon’s plan to weaken the British economy | Continental System
| Used by the revolutionaries to execute opponents | guillotine
| Democratic nation composed of good citizens, which the Committee of Public Safety tried to establish | Republic of Virtue
| Prominent critic of Napoleon’s rule | Germaine de Stael
| Which of France’s estate was NOT exempt from the Taille | Third Estate
| Under the Constitution of 1789 who made the laws | Legislative Assembly
| The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen proclaimed what | equal rights for all men, but no political rights for women
| Who seized political power from the Legislative Assembly | Paris Commune
| What was the difference between the Girondins and the Mountain | Giordins wanted to keep king alive while the Mountain wanted the king executed
| The most important of the seven legal codes established by Napoleon was | the Civil Code
| Promotion within Napoleon’s new bureaucracy was based on | ability only, not rank or birth
| The Russians defeated Napoleon’s superior Grand Army by | retreating hundreds of miles and burning their own villages and countryside |
