Download The Rise and Fall of Napoleon Study Guide Section 3: Napoleon

The Rise and Fall of Napoleon Study Guide
Section 3: Napoleon Forges an Empire pp. 229-233
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Explain why Napoleon was considered the hero of the hour.
Give an example of a Napoleonic military success and failure.
How did Napoleon’s coup d’etat affect power in France? (What type of leader did he become and how did he legitimize
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Why was Napoleon able to concentrate on domestic reforms in 1802?
How would you evaluate Napoleon’s reforms in the following areas?
What was the problem?
How did he attempt to solve it?
Evaluate his reform
Economy
Education
Law
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Why do you think that the French people and the Pope supported Napoleon’s decision to make himself an emperor?
Give two (there are many more) examples of how Napoleon betrayed the goals of the Revolution in France and
elsewhere.
Give three reasons why Napoleon agreed to the Louisiana Purchase.
Analyze the long and short-term significance of the Battle of Trafalgar.
10. Napoleon was a man of the Enlightenment. He believed in reason and felt that religion was at most a social
convenience. Yet he moved away from the de-Christianization policy of the National Convention. Analyze Napoleon’s
new church policy from the perspective of the French people, the Church and Napoleon.
Napoleon’s Empire Collapses pp. 234-237
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What were two results of the Peninsular War?
Why did Napoleon invade Russia?
Defend the Czar’s decision to use the scorched-earth policy.
What surprise was waiting for Napoleon in Moscow?
How did nature help defeat the Grand Army?
How might Napoleon’s last bid for power, the Hundred Days, have ended differently? Or was that even possible?
Elba is to Leipzip what St Helena is to Waterloo. Explain.
Read Visual Summary of French Revolution and Napoleon on page 242
Give at least two reasons why the Continental System was doomed to failure.
How was the United States affected by the Continental System?
Why did Napoleon invade Spain?
What did Napoleon do in Spain that guaranteed the complete alienation of the Spanish people?
What effect do you think Goya’s The Third of May had on French or Spanish people?
Why do you think that Napoleon miscalculated about nationalism?
Read primary source by Simon Bolivar on map skill on page 243. Answer all three questions
26. Like Hitler 130 years later, Napoleon hoped that his Grand Empire would last for centuries. Yet like Hitler’s empire, the
empire of Napoleon collapsed almost as rapidly as it was formed. Explain
27. Napoleon’s desire power had raised him to great heights, and the same love of power led him to his doom. In his
efforts to extend the French Empire and crush Great Britain, Napoleon pursued three disastrous policies. What were
those three policies, why were they disastrous and what should Napoleon have done in response to the initial failure of
his Continental System in 1806?
Garratt – Honors
28. French and American foreign policies have had a dramatic impact on one another. Explain what those effects are and
whether or not it benefitted or damaged each other’s national interests.
29. The French Revolution not only gave rise to nationalism inside France but elsewhere throughout Europe. Compare and
contrast the impetus given to nationalism both in and out of France.
The Congress of Vienna pp. 238-241
30. The most influential statesman at the Congress of Vienna (COV) was Klemens von Metternich. How successful was he in
meeting his three goals as seen below?
Metternich’s Plan
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Containment of France
Balance of Power
Restoration/Legitimacy
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Which group(s) on the political spectrum benefitted from the Congress of Vienna? Which groups lost?
In what ways was the Congress of Vienna a success? Failure? What is your opinion?
For what purpose was the Holy Alliance and Concert of Europe devised?
Over what were liberals and conservatives divided in France?
How did Napoleon’s invasion and conquest of Spain affect Latin American countries?
How did creoles and peninsulares disagree over the political situation in Latin America?
Lexicon
Section Three
Section Four
Section Five
Royalists
Cannonade
Directory
Egypt
First Consul
Plebiscite
Banking system
Lycees
Meritocracy
Concordat
Napoleon Code
Emperor
Toussaint L’Ouverture
Louisiana Purchase
Battle of Austerlizt
Battle of Trafalgar
Horatio Nelson
Continental System
Blockade
War of 1812
Peninsular War
Guerillas
Nationalism
Invasion of Russia
Iberian Peninsula
Goya
Grand Army
Battle of Borodino
Moscow
Leipzig
Elba
Louis XVIII
Waterloo
Hundred Days
St. Helena
Congress of Vienna
Metternich
Containment
Balance of Power
Legitimacy
Conservatives
Liberals
Holy Alliance
Concert of Europe
Creoles
Peninsulares
Independence