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Supporting the Big Ideas
Directions: Read each of the Big Ideas below and support with evidence from the day’s
lesson. Your responses should include AT LEAST 3-4 TOPICS for each Big Idea.
Economic and social inequalities in the Old Regime helped cause the French
Revolution.
The revolutionary government of France made reforms but also used terror and
violence to retain power.
Napoleon Bonaparte, a military genius, seized power in France and made himself
emperor.
Napoleon’s conquests aroused nationalistic feelings across Europe and contributed
to his downfall.
After exiling Napoleon, European leaders at the Congress of Vienna tried to trestore
order and reestablish peace.
Name:__________________________
The French Revolution and Napoleon, 1789-1815
HUGE IDEAS: The French Revolution was the result of
Enlightenment ideas, economic troubles, and weak leadership
displayed by the monarchy. Napoleon Bonaparte rose from
relative obscurity to become the master of France, attempted to
conquer Europe, and was defeated by an alliance of European
nations.
Essential Questions
1. Why were members of the Third
Estate dissatisfied with their way
of life under the Old Regime?
2. Why was the fall of the Bastille
important to the French people?
3. What political reforms resulted
from the French Revolution?
4. What was the Reign of Terror,
and how did it end?
5. What important reforms did
Napoleon introduce?
6. What steps did Napoleon take to
create and empire in Europe?
7. What factors led to Napoleon’s
defeat in Russia?
8. Why were European allies able to
defeat Napoleon in 1814 and
again in 1815?
9. What were Metternich’s three
goals at the Congress of Vienna?
10. How did the Congress of Vienna
ensure peace in Europe?
Key Terms/Ideas/People
Old Regime_____
Estate_____
Louis XIV_____
Marie Antoinette_____
Estates-General_____
National Assembly_____
Tennis Court Oath_____
Great Fear_____
Legislative Assembly_____
Émigré_____
Sans-culotte_____
Jacobin_____
Guillotine_____
Maximilien Robespierre_____
Reign of Terror_____
Napoleon Bonaparte_____
Coup d’etat_____
Plebiscite_____
Lycee_____
Concordat_____
Napoleonic Code_____
Battle of Trafalgar_____
Blockade_____
Continental System_____
Guerilla_____
Peninsular War_____
Scorched-Earth Policy_____
Waterloo_____
Hundred Days_____
Congress of Vienna_____
Metternich_____
Balance of Power_____
Legitmacy_____
Holy Alliance_____
Concert of Europe_____