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Napoleon and Industrial Rev
Napoleon's reign and inventions of the industrial revolution
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History
9th Grade
02/09/2009

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Emigres
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2nd estaters who fled after the fall of Louis XVI
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Concordat
Definition
agreement with the Pope
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Directory
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5 people ruling France, weak, Napoleon overthrew
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Trafalgar
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Coast of Spain, French lost- Napoleon couldn't invade England
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Continental System
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Boycott on British goods by Europe
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Guerilla Warfare
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used by Portuguese against Napoleon in Peninsular war, bogged down Napoleon
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Alexander I
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Czar of Russia, Holy Alliance, defeated Napoleon
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Peninsular War
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Fighting in Iberian, Portugal doesn't boycott (Continental System)
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Invasion of Russia
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691000 go in, 22000 come home (failure due to snow, disease)
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Scorched Earth Policy
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country (Russia) destroys anything useful to the enemy
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Battle of Nations
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Leipzig, Napoleon loses, goes to Elba
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Louis XVIII
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replaced Napoleon, overthrown when Napoleon returned
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Waterloo
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Napoleon loses the last time, rain a factor, Belgium
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St. Helena
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Napoleon died, island he was exiled to the 2nd time between South America and Africa
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Congress of Vienna
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1815, redraw map of Europe, Napoleon interrupts
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Metternich
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Austrian foreign minister, chancellor of Hapsburg empire, conservative!!!
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Castlereagh
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British rep @ congress of Vienna
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Hardenberg
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Prussian diplomat, @ congress of Vienna (it's HARD for kids to know the difference between russia and PRUSSIA)
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Talleyrand-Perigord
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French rep @ congress of Vienna, disagreed with Napoleon stepping down
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Flying Shuttle
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increased the speed of weaving, wider cloth, Kay
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Spinning Jenny
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8 threads at once, Hargreaves
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Spinning Mule
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Spinning Jenny and water frame combined, Samuel Crompton, yarn
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Capitalism
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Marx, private property, buyers and sellers regulate prices
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Communism
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anti religion, capitalism collapses, dictatorship, classless society
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Discuss how Napoleon came to power between 1795 and 1804. Use FACTS.
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Discuss the Battle of Trafalgar. What type of battle was it? Where? Result? Why important?
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Naval, Southern coast of Spain, Napoleon lost to British, couldn't invade England
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Discuss the Continental System. Goal? Problems w/ other countries? (decrees)
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Goal was to cripple England economically. Led to smuggling. Weakened other countries who normally traded with England.
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Invasion of Russia. When? Size of invading force? Russian strategy? When Napoleon got to Moscow? Results?
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691,000 French went in, Russians scorched earth policy, Napoleon turned around (no resources), French lost (only 22,000 men left)
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3 rolls of diplomats to Congress of Vienna?
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1. Redraw map of Europe after Napoleon erased boundaries 2.
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Describe Napoleon's 100 days. What would you have done differently?
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played defense- protect paris, have more troops
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Communism vs Capitalism: one country with each.
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Commies are anti religion. everybody is equal. gov't regulates everything. Cappies have private property and the buyers and sellers regulate prices. russia is a commie, the us is a cappie
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