Napoleonic Era

1
Napoleonic Era

• 1799 -1815
• Reaction to Revolution
• Transition period to Conservative Victorian Era

2
Reign of Napoleon

• Popular Sovereignty and Political Upheaval
• Napoleonic France
• Napoleons Empire
• Fall of Napoleon

Napoleons Empire in 1812
3
Modern Political Division

• Sovereign
• Having control over your territory
• Supreme power
• Autonomous, independent, self-governing
• Auto is self
• Nationalism
• Identification of ones country over ones region
  or allegiance to one person
• The unique cultural identity of a people based on
  common language, religion, and national symbols
• Nation state
• Territory
• Boundaries are fixed and identifiable
• People (cultural or ethnicity identification)
• Common language, history,
• Legitimacy
• sovereignty

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Napoleonic Era -1799 - 1815

• One of the Greatest Generals of All Time
• Organized French Army to Defeat Northern Italian
  States
• Reorganized and Centralized the Administration of
  France
• Created the Bank of France
• Established a public education system in France
• Submitted a New Constitution
• Reached an Agreement with the Pope Called the
  Concordat Which Acknowledged Catholicism as the
  Religion of Most French Citizens but it Did Not
  Abolish the Religious Toleration Guaranteed by
  the Declaration of the Rights of Man.
• Convinced Russia to Leave the Second Coalition.
• Established the Continental System Which Was a
  Blockade of Britain Which Eventually Brought
  about the War of 1812
• Carried the Influence of the French Revolution
  Throughout Europe Liberty, Equality and
  Fraternity
• Abolished Feudalism in the Areas That He Conquer.
• Indirectly Helped to Awaken a Spirit of
  Nationalism in the Areas That He Conquered
• First defeated at the Battle of Leipzig on his
  return from Russia
• Battle of Nations October 1813
• Sent to St. Elba
• Returns to rule for 100 days
• Defeated at the Battle of Waterloo by forces led
  by the Duke of Wellington (June 1815)
• Sent to St. Helena

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Nationalism Positive and Negative Force

• Nationalists believed that people owed their
  chief political loyalty to the nation rather than
  to a dynasty, city-state, or other political
  unit.
• After the French Revolution, nationalists came to
  believe that each nationality should have its own
  government.
• Thus the Germans, whose country was separated
  into many principalities, wanted to create a
  German nation-state with one central government.
• Subject peoples, such as Hungarians, wanted to
  create their own government rather than be
  subject to the Austrian emperor.
• This led to rebellions against established
  governments.