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– 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– 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