Ch. 22: The French Revolution and Napoleon

Napoleon Bonaparte was born in 1769 on the island of:

• Crete

• Corsica

• Sardinia

• Mallorca

​How were public officials and military personnel promoted through Napoleon?

• By their family

• By their ability

• By their wealth

• Napoleon didn't promote people

​Who ruled the dependent states in Napoleon's Grand Empire?

• the military

• his relatives

• Napoleon himself

• None of the above

Napoleon was greatly influenced by the

• French Revolution.

• Enlightenment.

• American Revolution.

• Glorious Revolution.

How did Napoleon plan to use the Continental System to hurt the British economy?​

• He took their land.

• He assassinated their king.

• He was allies with Britain.

• He told his allies not to trade with Britain.

What famous battle did Napoleon lose in Belgium in 1815?​

• Waterloo

• Borodino

• Austerlitz

• Ulm

When the Congress of Vienna was convened after Napoleon's defeat, their aim was to

• reignite the spirit of the French Revolution.

• restore European monarchs to power.

• select a nation to lead all of Europe.

• allow France to reclaim territories it lost in the war.

Many aristocrats and members of the bourgeoisie were attracted to _____.

• the Tennis Court Oath

• Enlightenment philosophies

• the ideas of the National Assembly

• the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen

Napoleon’s agreement with the Catholic Church

• took church lands from the pope and clergy.

• recognized Catholicism as the majority religion of France.

• created more stability within France.

• did not satisfy the priests and lower classes.

In their rebellions of 1789, peasants were reacting to the high cost of bread, high taxes, &

• political inequality.

• religious persecution.

• foreign intervention.

• treatment of women.