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37 Cards in this Set
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Political & Social System b4 French Revolution
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Old Regime
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3 Large Social Classes in France
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Estates
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An assembly of representatives from all 3 estates
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Estates-General
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Name of the 3rd Estate group after being denied evey person gets one vote
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National Assembly
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A Pledge made by the Members of the National Assembly in which they vowed to continue the meeting unti they had drawn upon a new constitution
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Tennis Court Oath
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Wave of Sensless panic after the Storming of the Bastille
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Great Fear
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rench congress witht the power to make laws.2nd Assembly in FR
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Legislative Assembly
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Person who leaves his native country due to political reasons
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emigre
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radical group made up of Parsian women and small shop keepers
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Sans-culotte
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member of the huge political group in FR.
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Jacobin
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a machine for beheading people
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gullotine
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rule of matrum noches pierre
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Reign of Terror
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blow to the state
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coupd'etat
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vote of the people
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plebiscite
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goverment run public schools
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Lycee
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agreement that brought back the church
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concordat
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Laws Napolean made
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Napolenic Code
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Only major land battle
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Battle of Trafalgar
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forceabal closure of ports
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blockade
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prevent trade and communication between Europe and Britian
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Continental System
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Spanish peasant fighters who used sneak attacks to kill their enemies
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guerilla
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burning grain fields and slaughtered live stock so they left nothing behind for the enemy to eat
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Scorched-earth policy
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battel held in a village
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Waterloo
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last hundred days of Napoleons rule
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Hundred Days
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Series of meetings in Vienna
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Congress of Vienna
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No country would be a threat to another
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Balance of Power
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All rulers over thororown and returned ot power
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Legitimacy
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Alliance in the holy roman empire
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Holy Alliance
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Alliances devised by Metternich
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Concert of Europe
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War between spanish citizens and France's army
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Peninsular War
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intense fear
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Terror
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wrote the French Dec. of the Rts of man and Citizens
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Lafayette
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madatory military service
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draft
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controlled by someone else
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puppet govt.
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Russia's freezing winter weather used as a military weapon & war strategy advantage
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General Winter
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to voluntarily give up ruling power
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abdicate
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banished or forced to live in a foreign country
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exiled
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