Kevin Young
Mr. Haskell
History e-core
24 November 2004
Reviewing
the Facts Chp.19 1-9
- This
was because the citizens were going hungry especially the peasants and the
king and queen were neglecting the people doing nothing to help them.
- They
did this because they heard the national troops were going to occupy the
area, they then demanded weapons and gunpowder that they believed to be
there.
- Liberty,
equality, and fraternity were the slogan of the French Revolution.
- In
1973 their death sentence was carried out, their son died later of unknown
causes
- Robespierre
was the chief architect of the reign of terror it lasted from 1793 to 1974
and it carried out hasty trials, spectators greeted death sentences with
cries of hail the Republic.
- Napoleon
regulated the economy, to control prices he encouraged new industry, and
built roads and canals his most lasting reform was the Napoleonic Code.
- Napoleon tried to conquer and annex new
territories under his power.
- Napoleon assembled an army of 600,000 men from
France and other countries, the enemy retreated further into Russia and it
was September by the time Napoleons troops reached the enemy but it was
winter so he had to retreated and only 100,000 men survived.
- A group of the congress met for ten months this
was a brilliant gathering of European leaders.