Topic 13B - Revolution and Napoleon Academic Language (2026)

French word for middle class (this includes doctors, lawyers, rich merchants, craft masters, etc-doesn't look like today's middle class)

• Consulate

• Congress of Vienna

• National Assembly

• Estates General

• Bourgeoisie

a statement of revolutionary ideals patterned on the US Declaration of Independence, state that all men are born and remain free and equal in rights, and that men have the right to liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression, etc

• Tennis Court Oath

• Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen

• Napoleonic Code

• Congress of Vienna

• Concert of Europe

a pledge signed by the delegates of the 3rd Estate stating that they would stay in session until a new constitution was drawn up

• Tennis Court Oath

• Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen

• Concert of Europe

• Estate

one of the 3 French social classes

• Moderate

• Consulate

• Estates General

• Estate

• Conservative

the pre revolution French "parliament" made up the three estates (Nobility, Clergy, and Commoners)

• Congress of Vienna

• National Assembly

• Consulate

• Estates General

• Estate

the name chosen by delegates of the 3rd estate; was intended to pass laws and reforms in the name of the French people

• Concert of Europe

• Estates General

• National Assembly

• Congress of Vienna

literally "blow against the state"; an overthrow of the government

• Coup d'etat

• Radical

• balance of power

• Consulate

• Bourgeoisie

Match the following

• Radical

• a political philosophy based largely on Enlightenment principles; people should be as free as possible from government restraint and the basic rights of all people should be protected

• Conservative

• someone who wants to change things, but at a slow pace

• Moderate

• someone who wants a lot of change and they want it now

• Liberalism

• someone who wants very little change if any, ever

Match the following

• Robespierre

• wife of King Louis XVI; queen of France; executed

• Marie Antoinette

• one of the primary leaders of the Revolution; later executed due to fears of safety

• Louie XVI

• took power after France couldn't created a successful democratic government; became Emperor, and conquered most of Europe (not Russia) before finally being defeated

• Napoleon

• king of France during the Revolution; executed as a traitor to the revolution

last battle of the Napoleonic Wars; Napoleon finally defeated and this time exiled to St Helena where he dies later

• Consulate

• Coup d'etat

• Tennis Court Oath

• Waterloo

• Concert of Europe