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WESTERN TRADITION
Chapter 23: The French Revolution and Napoleon
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Chapter 23: Charts, Graphs, and Sidebars (CGS)©
Use the textbook to answer the following questions based on the charts, graphs, and illustrations in the chapter
Chart: The
Three Estates
(Pg. 574)
-Who were the members of the First, Second, and Third Estates?
-What percent of the population was the Third Estate? What percent of their income did
members of the Third Estate pay in taxes?
-How did the members of the Second and Third Estates feel about Enlightenment ideas?
-Based on the chart, why do you think members of the First and Second Estates were opposed
to change?
Historymakers:
Marie
Antoinette (Pg.
575)
-Why was Marie unpopular in France?
History Through
Art: Fine Art (Pg.
575)
-How do the women depicted in the paintings differ in clothing and expression?
Daily Life: The
Women’s March
(Pg. 576)
-Why did the women march on Versailles in October 1789?
Historymakers:
Olympe de
Gouges (Pg.
577)
-What was Olympe de Gouges’s profession?
Chart: The
Legislative
Assembly (Pg.
578)
-How did the Radicals and Conservatives differ?
Science and
Technology: The
Guillotine (Pg.
581)
-Why was the guillotine invented? Why did some people dislike the guillotine as a method of
execution?
-How did Marie’s clothing add to her unpopularity?
-Who was the “baker”? What did the women expect from him?
-What was her goal?
-Where did the Moderates sit in the assembly? What was their view on change?
-According to the pie graph, the majority of victims of the guillotine came from what social
class?
-Who were the “trecoteuses”?
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Chapter 23: The French Revolution and Napoleon
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Chapter 23: Charts, Graphs, and Sidebars (CGS)©
Use the textbook to answer the following questions based on the charts, graphs, and illustrations in the chapter
Picture (Pg.
582)
-What is this a picture of? What object is crushing the priest?
-What does this object tell you about the views of the revolutionaries towards the Catholic
Church?
Historymakers:
Jean Paul Marat
(Pg. 583)
-Why did Marat have to spend much of his time in a bathtub?
Historymakers:
Napoleon
Bonaparte (Pg.
584)
-What effect did Napoleon’s speeches have on men?
Chart: Napoleon
Brings Order
after the
Revolution (Pg.
585)
-Which goals of the revolution did Napoleon achieve?
Map: French
Empire and
Battles, 18051813 (Pg. 588)
-The Battle of Austerlitz was one of Napoleon’s greatest victories. In what country did this
battle take place?
Global Impact:
Latin American
Revolutions (Pg.
590)
-Who were the peninsulares and creoles? Why were the creoles unhappy?
Map: Napoleon's
Russian
Campaign, 1812
(Pg. 591)
-When did Napoleon’s forces begin their invasion of Russia? How many soldiers did Napoleon
have?
-Who killed Marat and why?
-Why would Napoleon sometimes take medals from his own chest to give to his troops?
-How did Napoleon create more honest, competent officials in France?
-Where and when did the Battle of Trafalgar take place? How did British Admiral Nelson
defeat the French fleet?
-How did the creoles respond to Napoleon forcing the king of Spain to abdicate?
-When did Napoleon’s army reach Moscow? What was it like when they got there? Why was
the fact that he remained until October a problem?
-How many troops did Napoleon have when he left Russia in Dec. 1812?
-What was the temperature when Napoleon’s army reached the Russian town of Molodechno
in Dec. 1812? By how many degrees had the temperature dropped since October?
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Chapter 23: The French Revolution and Napoleon
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Chapter 23: Charts, Graphs, and Sidebars (CGS)©
Use the textbook to answer the following questions based on the charts, graphs, and illustrations in the chapter
Historymakers:
Klemens von
Metternich (Pg.
593)
-What traits made Metternich a successful diplomat?
Picture (Pg.
594)
-What does the illustration at the top of the page depict?
-Which country did Metternich work for and for how long?
-What does the phrase “diplomacy through entertainment” mean?
Connect to
Today: Congress
of ViennaUnited Nations
(Pg. 595)
-When was the UN established?
Maps: The
French Empire,
1810 and
Europe, 1817
(Pg. 596)
-Which countries did not experience any change in their territorial boundaries between 1810
and 1817?
-What do the Congress of Vienna and the UN have in common?
-What areas that were part of the French Empire in 1810 were lost by 1817?
-Based on the map, why might the German Confederation have been an unstable political
alliance for Germany?
Focus on
Geography (Pg.
599)
-Which nation was larger, Great Britain of the French Empire?
-What geographic barrier separated Great Britain from France?
-What would Napoleon have needed to successfully conquer Great Britain?
Different
Perspectives:
The French
Revolution (Pg.
597)
-According to Robespierre, what is the goal of the revolution?
-Does Dickens support or oppose the revolution? What do you base your answer on?
-Why would it make sense that Thomas Paine would be a supporter of the French
Revolution?