FRENCH REVOLUTION:

THE AGE OF NAPOLEON

Chapter 19 Section 4 & 5DAY 1-2Objective:

SWBAT work collaboratively to analyze photographs and paintings and write, and perform part of, a timeline story chronicling events of the Napoleonic Age.

DO NOW:Answer in notebooks:Napoleon said that he owed his rise to power to “the peculiarities of the time.” What did Napoleon mean by this? (Peculiarity means strangeness) Hint: Think about what was happening in France during the years of the Revolution.

DO NOW: PICK UP HANDOUTGROUP ACTIVITY DIRECTIONS: View the provided visuals Answer attached questions

independently Discuss answers with your group As a group, place visuals/ events in the

correct chronological order What story do these visuals tell? Write

the story as a group.

CHAPTER 19 SECTIONS 4 & 5 (DAY 3-4)

DO NOW: COPY TOPIC & OBJECTIVES

TOPIC: French Revolution & Napoleon, 1799-1815

Objectives: SWBAT identify reforms enacted by Napoleon.SWBAT explain how Napoleon controlled his

empire.SWBAT explain the causes and effects of

Napoleons Russian Campaign.SWBAT explain the effects of the Congress of

Vienna. TEST ON WEDNESDAY !!!!

NAPOLEON: ORDER, SECURITY, EFFICIENCY

• General in the French Army• Skilled tactician• Victories against Britain, Austria• Captures Northern Italy• Campaign to Egypt & India failed• 1799 overthrows the Directory

• Sets up a 3-man Consulate• Writes ANOTHER Constitution• Makes self First Consul• 1802 Consul for Life

• Holds PLEBISCITES (ballots) and receives public support

DQ: How is Napoleon’s motto different from the motto of the French Revolution, “Equality, Liberty, Fraternity”?

1. REFORMS1. Economic:

Controlled prices, built roads/ canals, encouraged new industries

2. Public Schools: trained military officers3. Concordat of 1801: peace with R.C. Church

Religious freedom for Catholics4. Oath of Loyalty for émigrés 5. Land rights for peasants who bought church and

noble’s lands6. Meritocracy: jobs open to “all those with talent”7. Napoleonic Code:

• Religious toleration• Equality of citizens under the law• Meritocracy • Women lost rights to citizenship

2. NAPOLEON’S EMPIRE• Annexed Netherlands,

Belgium, parts of Italy & Germany

• Abolished Holy Roman Empire & created Confederacy of the Rhine

• Created Duchy of Warsaw

• Placed friends/ relatives on thrones• Spain – Napoleon’s brother

Joseph crowned king• Controlled empire by

creating alliances and signing treaties (Continental System)

• Result: growth of French nationalism

3. NAPOLEONIC WARS: BRITAIN

• 1805 Battle of Trafalgar• French fleet smashed

• Economic War: Blockades• France closed European ports to

British goods• Britain does the same• BOTH attack neutral ships• France is unable to stop Britain’s

trade with Americas and India• Result:

DEMAND =UP

SUPPLY = LOW

PRICES = UP

EUROPEANS OPPOSE FRANCE

3. NAPOLEONIC WARS: SPAIN

Problems with SPAIN• Problems: loyal to the Catholic Church• Spanish resistance: Guerilla warfare• Growth of Spanish nationalism• Britain helps Spain

3. NAPOLEONIC WARS: AUSTRIA

• Battle of Austerlitz- 1805 & 1809 Napoleon victorious

• Napoleon marries Marie Louise• Creates an alliance with Austrian royal family

3.NAPOLEONIC WARS: RUSSIA • Czar Alexander I withdraws from

the Continental System• 1812: 400,000 troops march to

Russia• Russians retreat east and burn

villages and crops• September: reach Moscow• October retreat• Only10,000 men survive the

1000 mile trip

Results: • Napoleon weakened, loses

support• PRAB: Prussia, Russia, Austria,

Britain• 1813 Battle of Nations at Leipzig• 1814 Napoleon abdicates• Louis XVIII king

3. NAPOLEONIC WARS: WATERLOO

• Napoleon is exiled to Elba• Escapes, returns home to support of

soldiers• 100 days

1815 Waterloo• P.R.A.B. victorious • Napoleon exiled

to St.Helena

4. CONGRESS OF VIENNA

• P.R.A.B. plus France• Goal = to establish a BALANCE OF POWERResults: Problems: Redrew the map of Europe….Ignore cultural “borders”

(ex. Germany)Growth of Nationalism

Restored “legitimate” Return to old order monarchs

Quadruple Alliance= PRAB Resentment from otherto maintain balance & nations, ex. Rhine suppress revolutions Confederation controlled by Austria

CLOSING/ POP QUIZ:Answer on scrap paper & hand in before end

of class:1. List and explain 2 reforms enacted by Napoleon .2. Name 3 countries that Napoleon conquered or

gained control over.3. Give one example of how Napoleon controlled

European rulers.4. What happened as a result of Napoleon’s Russian

Campaign?5. List and explain 2 outcomes of the Congress of

Vienna.

Homework: (Journals) Do you think that Napoleon was great or ruthless? What do you think Machiavelli would say about him?