French Revolution

About what percentage of France’s population belonged to the Third Estate?

• 7

• 15

• 25

• 97

What happened on July 14, Bastille Day?

• Robespierre was executed by guillotine

• French women marched all the way to Versailles

• A mob stormed a prison looking for gunpowder

• All of the above are true.

During the Reign of Terror, who was safe from the guillotine?

• No one

• The nobility

• Known revolutionaries

• Only Maximilien Robespierre

To prevent trade and communication between Great Britain and other European nations, Napoleon set up:

• a blockade

• a boycott

• an embargo

• a plebiscite

Napoleon’s policy called the Continental System was created to:

• Make continental Europe more self-sufficient

• Make trade between Europe and other continents easier

• Control smuggling along France’s coast

• Increase trade with Great Britain

The war between Spain and France in the early 1800s was known as the:

• Thirty Years’ War

• Civil War

• Hundred Days

• Peninsular War

The Russian practice of burning fields and slaughtering livestock to prevent invading troops from having access to them was called:

• Guerrilla warfare

• Slash-and-burn

• The Scorched-earth-policy

• The Continental System

All of the following were factors in Napoleon's downfall except:

• His invasion of Russia in 1812

• His use of the Continental System

• His war with Spain

• The Battle of Waterloo

The Battle of Waterloo was between the French and __________

• The British

• The British and the Spanish

• The British and the Prussians

• The British and the Austrians

The Hundred Days refers to...

• Napoleon's last bid for power

• The length of the Peninsular War

• The length of time Napoleon was exiled

• The length of Napoleon's Reign