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

Focus Questions 1. Before the Revolution, did France’s wealth and size of population give any warning of the problems to come? 2. What caused the outbreak of the Revolution? 3. What is the difference between the storming of the Bastille and the Tennis Court Oath 4. Arrange these in chronological order: convening of the Estates General, Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen 5. What were the three stages of the Revolution? 6. What document alienated the French Church and her believers? 7. Arrange these in chronological order: Consulate, National Assembly, Directory, National Convention. 8. When it was all over, how many died during the Reign of Terror? 9. Did the Revolution end the legal inequities between the classes? If so, how? If not, Why? 10. What were some of Napoleon’s positive accomplishments? 11. What was the purpose of the Continental System? 12. How did Napoleon make the Revolution an international movement? 13. How did the Congress of Vienna restore the balance of power in Europe. 14. Who were the important members of the Congress of Vienna. Which dominated the proceedings? 15. What did the map of Europe look like in 1789? 1800? 1815? 11. Define agnosticism, atheism, rationalism, deism 12. What role did Voltaire play in enlightenment thinking? 13. Which philosophes were influential in spreading Enlightenment thinking to the Americas?