AP Euro Unit 5 Review

The Romantic movement in late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Europe was a reaction against what intellectual movement?

• The Enlightenment

• Communism

• Nationalism

• The Scientific Revolution

Why did many people see Napoleon as an oppressor?

• The creation of systems of primary education under Napoleon was seen as an unjustified intrusion into family life.

• While he created some representative institutions in conquered regions, in practice these were manipulated to keep Napoleon’s regime in power.

• He imposed the Code Napoleon, a system of laws based on French revolutionary principles, on territories conquered by his armies.

• He redrew territorial boundaries to meet popular nationalist demands, such as creating a new Polish state out of Prussian, Austrian, and Russian territory.

Why did Napoleon’s empire provoked nationalist reactions across Europe?

• Napoleon used nationalism to mobilize the mass armies that

  Napoleon used nationalism to mobilize the mass armies that facilitated his conquests, and his methods were copied and in some cases amplified by his rivals.

• Napoleon’s attempts to promote economic and industrial development in his empire threatened the merchant elites of other nations.

• Napoleon's failure to conquer Russia provoked nationalist fears of the imposition of Eastern Orthodox religion on Europe

• Napoleon’s agreement with the Roman Catholic Church in the Concordat of 1801 provoked nationalist responses in Protestant areas.

Napoleon’s efforts to limit civil rights and restrict domestic opposition are best explained by which of the following?

• The need to maintain a unified France in the face of continued resistance by other European powers to his imperial conquests

• The desire to appear as an upholder of Enlightenment political models

• The desire to create an absolute monarchy modeled on the Bourbon dynasty

• The need to suppress internal opposition to the state-sponsored Cult of the Supreme Being

What is the continental system? 

• Economic plan to strengthen Europe and weaken Britain
• A new system of government 
• Working with America to gain investments
• Economic system put in place under Napoleon

Who crowned Napoleon emperor in 1804?

• The Pope
• He crowned himself
• The King of France
• The people voted him Emperor

What was the result of Napoleon's invasion of Russia?

• None of these
• Napoleon conquered Russia, but while he was invading the British invaded France
• Napoleon retreated to focus on the Haitian Revolution
• Napoleon lost 95% of his army, and retreated back to France

Why did the Congress of Vienna return absolute monarchs to power in Europe after the Napoleonic Wars?

• to restore order and the balance of power
• to encourage the spread of nationalism
• to promote the spread of Enlightenment ideas
• to protect the power of the Catholic Church

Why was the Peninsular War considered one of Napoleons three costly mistakes? 

• His brother Joseph was not able to withstand the guerrilla warfare tactics used by Spanish nationalists.
• The British navy was too strong for the blockade and France's economy suffered as a result
• The Russians used the scorched-earth policy to eventually starve Napoleons army
• The blockade successfully restricted British trade and led to fall of Great Britain

Napoleon’s mobilization of large conscript armies is best understood as a continuation of the military practices of

• the French wars of religion

• the Thirty Years’ War

• the Bourbon monarchy’s wars of the eighteenth century

• the French Revolutionary period