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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_____