Chapter 19 - The Era of French Revolution and Napoleon

Canada

They controlled ________ and the lands east of the Mississippi.

Napoleon

________ was born in Corsica in 1769, only a few months after France had annexed the island.

Napoleon himself

________ was a rationalist who regarded religion at most as a convenience.

French society

Before the Revolution, ________ was grounded in the inequality of rights or the idea of privilege.

Napoleon

________ made peace with the oldest and most implacable enemy of the Revolution, the Catholic Church.

Treaty of Paris

Finally, in 1783 the ________ was signed and the Americans were recognized as independent.

French Revolution

The year 1789 witnessed two far-reaching events, the beginning of a new United States of America and the eruption of the ________.

First Estate

The ________ consisted of the clergy and numbered about 130,000 people. Approximately 10 percent of the land.

Second Estate

The ________ was the nobility, composed of no more than 350,000 people who nevertheless owned about 25 to 30 percent of the land. They held many positions in the government, the military, and the law courts.

Third Estate

The ________, the commoners of society, constituted the overwhelming majority of the French population. They were divided by vast differences in occupation, level of education, and wealth. They were the peasants (75-80% of the population).

National Assembly

By 1791, the ________ had completed a new constitution that established a limited constitutional monarchy.