Napoleon domestic policies
British East India Company
Provided competition to Riley dutch east India company
War over the control of Austria due to the fact that Charles VI left Maria Theresa (a girl) as heir to the throne. Frederick II of Prussia invaded due to a want for Silesia and France helped him in order to humiliate their enemy (Austria.) Great Britain allied with Austria to prevent France from gaining more land. The colonies of F and GB began to fight also. Austria gave Silesia to Prussia and the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle ended the war.
Napoleon overthrows Directory
Foreign responses to French revolution
Other European monarchies didn't like the revolution. In response France built the largest military Europe had ever seen by conscripting every man aged 18-25. They won the wars
Installed state-sponsored censors in every major newspaper
French Revolution political causes
Imbalances in the estates general. 97% of the population only got 1 vote.
French revolution other cause
Seven Years War
(1756-1763 CE) Known also as the French and Indian war. It was the war between the French and their Indian allies and the English that proved the English to be the more dominant force of what was to be the United States both commercially and in terms of controlled regions. Left England in a lot of debt
Effects of the French Revolution
Led to the Haitian revolution, other European thinkers argued against the chaos of the reign of terror and prevented the revolution from spreading
Concordat of 1801
Reign of Terror
(1793-94) during the French Revolution when thousands were executed for "disloyalty" by the committee of public safety
Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815)
Napoleon's secret police
Worked to maintain the status quo and peace. They sometimes executed innocent people to send a message
The Spanish rebelled against napoleon's rule and the continental system. Started to weaken his rule
King Louis locked the third estate out of the meeting room, they declared themselves the national assembly
Great fear
A wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille in 1789
Continental System
French revolutionary wars
A series of conflicts fought between the French Revolutionary government and European states hostile to the Revolution (1792-1802). A war of people against kings. France shocked everyone and won.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Storming of the Bastille
People stormed a debtors prison for people who couldn't pay taxes, in response to learning that king Louis was assembling an army to crush the National Assembly
Liberal Phase of the French Revolution (1789-92)
Napoleon returns to France from Elba after being forced to abdicate the throne by the coalition of nations. Tried to overthrow his replacement Louis the 18th, but was defeated by other nations and sent to St. Helena island.
Constitution of 1791
established a limited monarchy with 3 branches of government: legislative assembly, king, and revised judicial system.
French Revolution (1789)
Period of radical social and political change throughout Europe that began with an uprising
An enlightened law code that included equality of citizens (men) before the law, protections of wealth and private property, and religious toleration
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Tennis Court Oath
Dutch East India Company
Government-chartered joint-stock company that controlled the spice trade in the East Indies. Aimed to dethrone the Portuguese dominance of Asian trade
National Assembly nationalized and reforms the church
