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25 Cards in this Set
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Old Regime
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system of feudalism left over from the Middle Ages
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estates
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a division of three large social classes
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Louis XVI
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king who helped the American revolutionaries and doubled the government debt.
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Marie Antoinette
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Louis’s wife, who also put France in debt
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Estates-General
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assembly of representatives from all three estates
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National Assembly
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the new name of the Third Estate. They were to be able to pass laws and reforms in the name of the French people
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Tennis Court Oath
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a pledge made by the Third Estate delegates to stay in the indoor tennis court until they had drawn up a new constitution.
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Great Fear
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wave of “senseless panic” that spread through France. Peasants broke into nobles’ manor houses and tore up old legal papers.
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Declaration of the Rights of Man
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statement of revolutionary ideals
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Legislative Assembly
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new assembly which had the power to create laws and to approve or prevent any war the king declared on other nations
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Emigres
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nobles and others who fled France during peasant uprising
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Sans-culottes
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Parisian wage earners and shopkeepers who wanted a greater voice in the government
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Maximilien Robespierre
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set out to build “republic of virtue”. He and his supporters tried to wipe out races of France’s past monarchy and nobility.
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Committee of Public Safety
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Robespierre became the leader of this committee and decided who should be considered enemies of the republic.
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Reign of Terror
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period of Robespierre’s reign where he acted as a dictator
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Napolean Bonaparte
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joined the army of the new government when the Revolution started
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Coup d’etat
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“blow of state”
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Plebiscite
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vote of the people
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Lycees
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government-run public schools
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Concordat
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agreement
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Napoleonic Code
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Napoleon’s system of laws that gave the country a uniform set of lawas and eliminated many injustices
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Battle of Trafalgar
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only battle Napoleon lost. It was a naval defeat that took place in 1805 off the southern coast of Spain.
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Continental System
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policy that was supposed to make continental Europe more sufficient
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Penisular War
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war that weakened the French empire, where Napoleon lost about 300,000 men
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Hundred Days
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Napoleon’s last bid for power
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