Monday, December 2, 2013

AP European History: The French Revolution, Napoleon, and the Congress of Vienna

Topics and Terms - The French Revolution - the Old Regime - the First Estate - the Second Estate - the Third Estate - the First or Moderate Stage of the Revolution (1789-1792) - meeting of the Estate General - creation of the National Assembly - Tennis Court Oath - storming of the Bastille - abolishment of feudalism and manorialism - Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen - Constituent Assembly - march on Versailles - seizure of Church and monastery lands - Civil Constitution of the Clergy - Flight to Varennes - Declaration of Pillnitz - the Second or Radical Stage of the Revolution (1792-1795) - the Legislative Assembly - Wars of Revolution - Brunswick Manifesto - storming of the Tuileries - the First French Republic - the First Coalition - Jacobins and Girondists - National Convention - Maximilien Robespierre - Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette - The Enrages - Committee of Public Safety - Republic of Virtue - Danton - the Final or Reactionary Stage of the Revolution (1795-1798) - The Thermidorian Reaction - The Directory - Napoleon - the Consulate - the Concordat - Code Napoleon - merit system - victories in Italy - victories in Germany - Confederation of the Rhine - the Continental System - War with Spain - war with Russia - the Grand Armee - collapse of Napoleonic Empire - Battle of Leipzig - aka Battle of Nations - abdication of Napoleon - Frankfurt proposals - Bourbon dynasty - Louis XVIII - island of Elba - the Congress of Vienna - rule of legitimacy - Clemens Von Metternich - Viscount Castlereagh - Czar Alexander - Prince Hardenberg - Foreign Ministeer Tallyrand - settlement of the Napoleonic Wars - the Hundred Days - Concert of Europe - aka Quadruple Alliance