LOS AMIGOS HIGH SCHOOL
AP EUROPEAN HISTORY
Unit
XV: THE NAPOLEONIC AGE (1799-1815)
The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Consulate (628-630)
The Napoleonic Wars, The Treaty of Campo Formio, The Organic Articles of 1802
GUIDED READING QUESTIONS:
1. In the wake
of the Reign of Terror, which groups supported a restoration of the Bourbon
monarchy? How did the Directory deal with
its opponents?
2.
Having seized power in a coup d'ˇtat with the Abbˇ
Siˇy¸s, how did Napoleon ultimately
establish
himself as the sole ruler - or First Consul - of
France?
3. How was NapoleonÕs Constitution
of the Year VIII an attempt to appeal to various elements
within French society?
4. In what ways was Napoleon more like the dictators of the
twentieth century than the
emperors of Ancient Rome?
5. In what ways had the various factions of the Third Estate
achieved most of their goals by the
time of the establishment of Napoleon's Consulate in 1799?
6. How did Napoleon win the support of the former Jacobins?
7. How did the provisions of the Napoleonic Code dealing
with the rights of labor and women
compare with attitudes toward labor and women during the
revolutionary years?
8. Why did Napleon decide to
abandon the Consulate and establish himself as
PEOPLE:
Napoleon Bonaparte Napoleon
Bonaparte Napoleon
Bonaparte
(General) (First
Consul of the Republic) (Emperor
of France)
Horatio Nelson Pope Pius VII Josˇphine
Bonaparte
(British
Admiral) (Empress
of France)
IMAGES:
The Coronation of Josephine Bonaparte by
Jacques-Louis David
NapoleonÕs Empire (630-640)
The Peace of Amiens
(1802), The Third Coalition, The Treaty of Pressburg,
The Berlin
Decrees, The Treaty of Schoenbrunn
SIGNIFICANT BATTLES OF THE NAPOLEONIC ERA
The War of the First Coalition: Austria, Britain, Holland, Prussia, Sardinia, Spain
The War of the Second Coalition: Austria, Britain, Ottoman Turkey, Russia
The Battle of the Nile
at Abukir (Aug 1798)
The Battle of Marengo
(Jun 1800)
The Battle of Hohenlinden (Dec 1800)
The War of the Third Coalition: Austria, Britain, Russia, Sweden
The Battle of Trafalgar
(Oct 1805)
The Battle of Ulm (Oct
1805)
The Battle of
Austerlitz (Dec 1805)
The War of the Fourth Coalition: Prussia, Russia, Saxony
The Battle of
Jena-Auerstedt (Oct 1806)
The Battle of Friedland (Jun 1807)
The War of the Fifth Coalition: Austria, Britain
The Battle of Wagram
(Jul 1809)
The War of the Sixth Coalition: Austria, Britain, Prussia, Russia, Sweden
(French ally: the United States, who at the time was
fighting Britain in the War
of 1812.)
The Battle of Borodino
(Sept 1812)
The Battle of Leipzig,
aka "The Battle of Nations" (Oct 1813)
The War of the Seventh Coalition: Austria, Britain, the Netherlands,
Prussia, Russia, Sweden
The Battle of Waterloo
(Jun 1815)
GUIDED READING QUESTIONS:
1. How did France's victories in the Napoleonic Wars between
1804-1815 change Europe?
2. What did NapoleonÕs reorganization of the political
structure of the German states mean for
the Holy Roman Empire?
3. How did the Treaty of Tilsit (1807) alter the European balance of power?
4. How did
Napoleon organize the governing of his conquered empire? How was his
organizational
structure viewed by the rest of Europe?
5. How was the
British economy able to survive Napoleon's economic warfare? How did his
Continental System affect the rest of Europe?
6. Under what
pretext did the French army enter Spain in 1807, initiating the Peninsular War?
7. Why was the
Franco-Russian alliance established in the Treaty of Tilsit
unpopular with the
Russian nobility? What did Russia hope to gain from the
alliance? What actions of
Napoleon ultimately
soured Alexander's support of France and the Continental System?
8. Why did
Napoleon refuse to come to a negotiated settlement with Metternich and the
European coalition?
PEOPLE:
Napoleon Bonaparte Napoleon
Bonaparte H.R.E.
Francis II
(Emperor in his
study) (Master
of Europe) (Emperor
of Austria)
Alexander I Frederick
William III Joseph Bonaparte
(Czar of
Russia) (King
of Prussia) (King
of Spain)
Arthur Wellesley Napoleon
Bonaparte
(The Duke of
Wellington) (Abdicated)
IMAGES:
The Third of May by Francisco Goya
The Congress of Vienna (640-642)
The
Treaty of Chaumont, The Quadruple Alliance, The Holy Alliance
GUIDED READING QUESTIONS:
1. Who were the four great powers that conducted the Congress of Vienna? How did the
Congress deal with France? In what ways did the Congress build up
France's neighbors to
serve as barriers to any new French expansionism?
2. Describe the argument that arose among the great powers
over Poland and Saxony? How
was the matter resolved?
3. Why was Napoleon's return from Elba welcomed by the French
people? What did he
promise upon his return?
4. How did the Hundred Days alter the peace settlements at Vienna?
5. How did the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Age force
the Congress of Vienna to be unlike
any peace
conference of the past?
6. Despite being regarded as a remarkable success, for what
reasons has the Congress been criticized?
7. Describe the
various changes made by the Congress of Vienna to the map of Europe.
Klemens
von Metternich Robert
Stewart Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
(Foreign
Minister of Austria) (Viscount
Castlereagh) (Foreign
Minister of France)
IMAGES:
The Congress of
Vienna