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Napoleon Cause and Effect
Mr. Westfall’s
World Studies
Napoleon Defends the Nat’l
Convention
• Cause
– Royalist Army sent to disband the Nat’l
Convention
• Effect
– Hero and savior of the French Republic
Napoleon becomes one of the
three Consuls
• Cause
– The Directory lost control
• Effect
– Britain, Austria and Russia join forces to take
Napoleon out of power
Plebiscite approved a new
constitution
• Cause
– Napoleon pretending to be the chosen leader
• Effect
– Gave all real power to Napoleon
Napoleon issues laws to strengthen the
Central Gov’t and achieve goals of the
Revolution
• Cause
– The need to restore order at home
• Effect
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Efficient tax collection
Nat’l banking system
Dismissed corrupt officials
Set up Lycees
Napoleon signs a Concordat to establish
a new relationship between the church
and state
• Cause
– Peasants wanted to restore the position of the
Church
• Effect
– Gained Napoleon the support of the French
people and the church
Napoleonic Code
• Cause
– The need to restore order at home
• Effect
– Uniform set of laws
– Promoted order over individual rights (freedom
of speech and press restricted)
Napoleon creates an Empire
• Cause
– Wanted control over the rest of Europe and in the
Americas
• Effect
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He cut his losses in the Americas
Louisiana Terr. To US for $15mil
Annexed Austrian Netherlands and parts of Italy
Puppet gov’t in Switzerland