HN World History Lap 5 Quiz

What were TWO steps by Napoleon to become dictator in France?

• seized power + overthrew Directory

• made himself First Consul

What were TWO ways Napoleon was absolute and changed the French economy?

• controlled the economy

• Bank of France + new taxes

What were TWO ways Napoleon was absolute and centralized control of the government?

• merit jobs

• change school system

What were TWO ways Napoleon was absolute and limited liberty in his empire?

• decreased free speech/free press

• restored colonial slavery

How was Napoleon’s Russian campaign disastrous for France? 

Napoleon captures and abandons the city. On the way home, most of the soldiers die/killed.

What happened to Napoleon and to Europe after Waterloo?

Napoleon: gets captured + exiled to Helena

Europe:

• military defeats

• Congress of Vienna returned the borders

• old monarchies were restored to power

Revolutionary leaders in Haiti, Venezuela/ S.America, and Mexico

Haïti: Toussaint Louverture, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Henri Christophe

Venezuela: Simón Bolivar

México: Miguel Hidalgo, José Maria Morelos, and Agustin de Iturbide

Which country had a successful slave rebellion in the Americas?

Haiti

Which rev. was begun by creoles and which was opposed by creoles?

Begun: Bolivar- South American rebellion

Opposed: Mexican creoles oppose rebellion at first

Which revolution did not become a lengthy/bloody civil war?

1830: July Revolution in France

Napoleonic Code

revised laws; supported some enlightened ideals + opposed others

Battle of Trafalgar 

Napolean’s fleet was defeated, so can’t invade Britain

scorched earth policy

military strategy to destroy everything; leave nothing for the enemy

Continental System

a blockade + embargoes to destroy the British economy

balance of power

a political situation in which no one nation is powerful enough to pose a threat to others

Gran Colombia 

Spanish colonies of South America into a single country; established by Simon Bolivar

July Revolution

1830; short rev. in France to maintain a consitutional monarchy

Second Republic

Following the 1848 revolution, France ends constitutional monarchy

Cause + Effects:  Why did France begin a war with Russia and what was the impact?

War: Russia violated the Continental System and traded with Britain

Impact: Napoleon invades Russia

Relate the Napoleonic Wars and the Revolutions of 1800 (long term causes) 

Wars: Napoleon conquers most of Europe + spreads Enlightenment ideals

After the wars, ethnic groups want to unify

Causes:  Which revs were for political rights and which for soc/ econ rights?

Mexican, South American, French

Effects:  Long term successes-- which Am. countries became independent?

Haiti + Mexico become independent

South American (Venezuela, Gran Columbia, Bolivia)

Effects:  Which became a dictatorship + which became a const. monarchy?

Mexico has a dictator.

France has a const. monarchy.

Causes: How did the king help cause the revolution in France (1830)?

Charles X enforces the July ordinances, which would give him absolute power.