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“The Age of Napoleon and the Triumph of Romanticism”
Section 1 – The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte
1. Why did the Directory stage a coup de tat in September of 1797? What role did Napoleon
Bonaparte play?
2. Explain Napoleon’s strategy to defeat Britain in 1797. What were the end results?
3. Discuss the events surrounding Napoleon’s rise to power as First Consul of France.
Section 2 – The Consulate in France (1799-1804)
4. What steps did Napoleon take to restore order and deal with domestic opposition within France?
5. Identify the terms of the Concordat of 1801. How was the Catholic church ultimately impacted?
6. Analyze the major provisions of the Napoleonic Code.
7. How did Napoleon justify himself becoming Emperor?
Section 3 – Napoleon’s Empire (1804-1814)
8. What actions on the part of Napoleon aroused British fears of an expanding French Empire? How
did Britain respond? What was the significance of the Battle of Trafalgar?
9. How was the Continental System designed to defeat Britain? What were the economic
ramifications for those countries impacted?
Section 4 – European Response to the Empire
10. Provide evidence of the ideals of the French Revolution expanding into the French Empire.
11. Discuss the purpose of German nationalism at the start of the 19th century. How did this impact
military reform in Prussia?
12. How did guerilla warfare in Spain impact the ultimate fate of Napoleon?
13. Discuss the factors that allowed the Russians to inflict a humiliating defeat on Napoleon’s Grand
Army.
14. What developments led to Napoleon’s ultimate defeat at Leipzig?
Section 5 – The Congress of Vienna and the European Settlement
15. Discuss the decisions made prior to and during the Congress of Vienna that would shape
geographic and political future of Europe.
16. What was the Hundred Days? How did this period ultimately impact France? How did it end?
Section 6 – The Romantic Movement
17. Explain the basic tenets (characteristics) of Romanticism. What was this movement a reaction to?
Section 7 – Romantic Questioning of the Supremacy of Reason
18. According to Rousseau what role should a child’s sentiments play in their education? How did he
believe this would impact society?
19. Explain Immanuel Kant’s concept of categorical imperative.
Section 8 – Romantic Literature
20. Identify the basic characteristics of Romantic literature.
Section 9 – Romantic Art
21. What themes and subject matter became the focal points of Romantic art and architecture?
Section 10 – Religion in the Romantic Period
22. How did the Romantics view religion?
23. What prompted the emergence of Methodism? What were its basic tenets? Who founded the
movement?
Section 11 – Romantic Views of Nationalism and History
24. How did Johan Herder justify the glorification of individual cultures? What did his writings help
to revive across Europe?
25. According to Georg Hegel what role did individual cultures play in the development of
humankind?