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Chapter 18: the French Revolution and Napoleon, 1789-1815 0544A-0544D C18 TE-Nat/FL©05 3/11/04 1:28 PM Page 544 Chapter 18 Resources Timesaving Tools ™ Use Glencoe’s Presentation Plus! • Interactive Teacher Edition Access your Teacher Wraparound Edition and multimedia teacher your classroom resources with a few easy clicks. tool to easily present dynamic lessons that visually excite your stu- Interactive Lesson Planner Planning has never been easier! Organize your • ® week, month, semester, or year with all the lesson helps you need to make dents. Using Microsoft PowerPoint you can teaching creative, timely, and relevant. customize the presentations to create your own personalized lessons. TEACHING TRANSPARENCIES Graphic Organizer Student Chapter Map Overlay Activity 18 Transparency L2 Transparency 18 L2 Transparency 18 L2 Graphic Organizer 15: Chain-of-Events or Flowchart CHAPTER TRANSPARENCY 18 The French Revolution and Napoleon (1789–1815) “My glory is not to have won France and Europe Map Overlay Transparency 18 forty battles, for Waterloo’s 20°W 10°W 0° 10°E 20°E 30°E France, 1789 defeat will destroy the memory SWEDEN North Sea Baltic Sea of as many victories. But what RUSSIA 0 150 300 mi. 50° GREAT N BRITAIN nothing will destroy, what 0150 300 km 40°E r e v i R e will live eternally is my n ATLANTIC i Paris h OCEAN R Civil Code.” N FRANCE W Sea E ck Bla —Napoleon Bonaparte S O 40 TT °N OM AN Corsica GAL E TU M PI RE POR APPLICATION AND ENRICHMENT Primary Source History Simulation Historical Significance Cooperative Learning Enrichment Activity 18 L3 Reading 18 L2 Activity 18 L1 Activity 18 L2 Activity 18 L1/ELL Name Date Class Name Date Class Name Date Class Name Date Class Name Date Class ISTORY ★ Enrichment Activity 18 ★ ★ Historical Significance Activity 18 H IMULATION P RIMARY S OURCE R EADING ! ★ ★ ★ 18 S CTIVITY 18 Cooperative Learning Activity 18 The Levée en Masse A HANDOUT MATERIAL Three Ways Napoleon Changed the World Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen Four months after the French revolution- spread of the revolution. Desperate, the Although assessments of Napoleon differ America. It was during this period of de aries proclaimed the first day of the “Year 1 leaders of the revolution made a decision Unrest in Blaat—Roles Stages of Change in France lthough the French Revolution later turned to violence and terror, the widely, no one denies that he was one of the facto autonomy that the Latin American of Liberty,” they faced fierce attacks from that would change the face of warfare first bold public statement of the revolutionary National Assembly most colorful and famous people in all of independence movements commenced.” BACKGROUND European monarchies that feared the forever. Aechoes the high ideals of John Locke, the Enlightenment, and the history. He was also among the most influ- The French Revolution did not simply replace one type of government with King Borax Archbishop Ladlepate Lady Bolingreen 3. The Louisiana Purchase American Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of the Rights of Man ential. Napoleon helped spread the ideas of another, or replace a monarchy with a democracy. The remarkable events of late You are God’s lieutenant on You have been chosen by Your family has owned the “Of all Napoleon’s actions . the one and of the Citizen was issued in August 1789. the French Revolution throughout Europe. eighteenth- and early nineteenth-centuries in France from the fall of the Bastille and earth. Like your father before God to lead the one true great Bolingreen blueberry that has perhaps had the most enduring lmost all of the monarchies of Europe launched their armies against France to stamp out the sacri- The passages below discuss three additional leading up to the reign of Napoleon took place in stages. Through your research Guided Reading In this selection, read to learn what problems and rights the Declaration addresses. you, you have absolute church. As such, you are the plantation for generations, and significant consequences was one Alegious revolutionaries, and when what was left of the old royal army, aided by volunteers, proved ways Napoleon changed the world. you will learn about the unusual twists and turns that the transformation took as it unable to stem the attacks, the National Convention decided on conscription: the levée en masse. power given to you by God second most powerful per- since the days of good that was almost irrelevant to his main struggled to define French government. the convention issued the call for a levée en masse in August [1793]. By New Year’s Day, The representatives of the French people, has no limits except those that assure to the to pass any law you wish, and son in Blaat. You owe your Queen Gertrude. Your family 1. The Napoleonic Code plans. In 1803, Napoleon sold a vast the people owe you unques- allegiance to King Borax. If he has always been loyal to the 1794, the French armies numbered about 777,000 men, and the wars of mass armies that ensued constituted in National Assembly, considering other members of society the enjoyment of “One of Napoleon’s reforms . was tract of land to the United States. He that ignorance, forgetfulness, or contempt of the these same rights. These limits can be deter- tioning allegiance. falls, so will you. monarch, as have most of the ravaged Europe for the next two decades. destined to have an impact far beyond realized that the French possessions in GROUP DIRECTIONS Conscription was not an entirely new idea . but it had never really amounted to more than com- rights of man are the sole causes of public mis- mined only by law. great lords, but this king fortunes and the corruption of governments, offends your honor. However, the borders of France. That was the North America might be difficult to pro- 1. Your group will prepare a two-column chart to show the various stages of the pulsory selection of an unfortunate minority, nor had it lasted long or been extended to an entire 5. The law can forbid only such actions as are have resolved to set forth in a solemn declara- he is your king, and perhaps creation of the French civil code, the tect from British conquest, and besides French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon to become first consul. In the left- country. But the French Revolution, with its principles of liberty and equality, first stimulated and then injurious to society. Nothing can be forbid- tion the natural, inalienable, and sacred rights of he is no worse than those [Napoleonic Code]. In many ways the he was short of cash. The Louisiana hand column, list the stages of the events that took place, and in the right-hand exploited a fervent nationalism which made conscription acceptable. It also made French troops den that is not forbidden by the law, and no man so that this declaration, being constantly fanatic opposition preachers code embodied the ideals of the French Purchase, perhaps the largest peaceful behave differently. one can be constrained to do that which it column describe the stage, including a list of important associated leaders and before all members of the social body, may who might replace him. Revolution. For example, under the transfer of land in all of history, trans- The “nation in arms” produced poorly trained soldiers . who had no time to master the intricate does not decree. documents. drill of close-order formations, but their enthusiasm and numbers made up for it: attacking in clouds unceasingly recall to them their rights and their code there were no privileges of birth, formed the United States into a nation of 2. Use Chapter 18 in your textbook and library or Internet resources to discover as of skirmishers and disorderly columns, they often simply overwhelmed their better-trained adver- duties; so that the acts of the legislative power 6. Law is the expression of the general will. and all men were equal under the law. near-continental size. It is difficult to say much as possible about the stages of political changes. saries. Battles rarely ended in draws any more—Carnot of the Committee of Public Safety and those of the executive power may always be All citizens have the right to take part per- At the same time, the code was suffi- what the United States would have been instructed the French armies in 1794 “to act in mass formations and take the offensive. Give bat- compared with the true aim of political organi- sonally, or by their representatives, in its Master Scarford Preacher Baker Tamara Chattworth ciently close to the older French laws like without the Louisiana Purchase; cer- 3. Use what you learn to create a poster-sized two-column chart. You may add tle on a large scale and pursue the enemy until he is utterly destroyed.” zation and thus may be more respected; and so enactment. It must be the same for all, You are a blueberry merchant You are a preacher in the You are a blueberry picker on and customs to be acceptable to the tainly it would have been a vastly differ- appropriate drawings or illustrations to add interest to the chart. The basic principle underlying all this was that whereas the prerevolutionary regular soldiers had that the demands of the citizens, founded hence- whether it protects or punishes. All citizens of means, respected by your small opposition church in the plantation of Lady French public and the legal profession. ent country than it is today. Indeed, it is 4. Think about the following events and any others you find in your research to been scarce and expensive, the lives of conscripts were plentiful and cheap.
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