Chapter 19 Ap Euro

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LouisXVI-

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King of France whose monarchy was abolished by the creationof the French Republic

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MarieAntoinette-

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Austrian Habsburg princess married to Louis XVI who as queenof France was his controversial political adviser

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JosephEmmanuel Sieyes-

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Catholic priest who championed the political rights of theThird Estate

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NationalAssembly-

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French Revolutionary legislature, in session from 1789 to1791

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TennisCourt Oath-

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Oath of the National Assembly not to disband before writtenconstitution has been drafted

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JacquesNecker-

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Louis XVI’s financial minister whose dismissalprovoked the uprising in Paris on July 14, 1789

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GreatFear-

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Widespread peasant uprising in July and August 1789 thatabolished feudal dues to landlords

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OctoberDays-

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Uprising of Parisian workingwomen in 1789 thatbrought the royal family to Paris from Versailles, march to Versailles

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Jacques-Louis Davis-

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Important artist who celebrated the revolution’s greatturning points in monumental paintings

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JacobinClub-

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Most important French revolutionary political club, whosemembers were called Jacobins

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MaximilienRobespierre-

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Important and powerful leader in the FrenchRevolution and one of the instigators of the reign of terror

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Active/Passive Citizen-

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Two categories of citizenship in which only property owningmen were allowed to vote and hold public office

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FrancoisDominique Toussaint L’Ouverture-

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Former slave who led the first successful slaverevolt in history in the Drench colony of Saint- Domingue

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CivilConstitution of the Clergy-

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Legislative decree of 1790 radically reformingthe Catholic Church in France

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Emigres-

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counterrevolutionaries who fled France duringthe Revolution

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ThomasPaine-

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Englishman who defended both the American andFrench Revolutions

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Sans-Culottes-

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Parisian militants who overthrew the FrenchMonarch in 1792

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NationalConvention-

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First republican legislature in France,governing from 1792 to 1795

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GeorgesDanton-

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Radical Jacobin revolutionary who rose toprominence after the overthrow of the monarchy

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SeptemberMassacres-

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Slaughter of 1,300 prisoners by thesans-culottes in Paris in 1792 that alienated many early supporters of theRevolution

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Committeeof Public Safety-

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Committee of the National Convention created in 1793 andgranted dictatorial powers to implement the terror

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Vendee-

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Part of western France in open rebellion againstthe National Convention in early 1793 following the break with the CatholicChurch and the execution of the king

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Reignof Terror-

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Government’s systematic coercion to defeat therevolution’s enemies implemented in 1793 and 1794

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De-Christianization-

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Attack on all forms of Christianity initiated bythe sans-culottes in 1793

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GreatTerror-

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Culminating phase of the reign of terror in 1794when more than 1,300 people were convicted and executed in Paris

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Thermidorianreaction-

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Period in 1794-1795 during which the terror wasdismantled.

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Directory-

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Executive committee that ruled France from 1795to 1799

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Flightto varrenes-

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the flight of king Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette to runfrom revolutionaries to Austria.

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Stormingof the bastille-

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rioters attacked bastille the jail and stole weapons andammunition, to attack the symbol of the king’s absolute power.

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EdmundBurke-

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Burke was a hugelyinfluential Anglo-Irish politician, orator and political thinker, notable forhis strong support for the American Revolution and his fierce opposition to theFrench Revolution.

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Girondinsand Mountains-

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two revolutionary factions vying for control of the NationalConvention in late 1792 and early 1793

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Marat-

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Jean-Paul Marat was a Frenchpolitical theorist, physician, and scientist who became best known for his roleas a radical journalist and politician during the French Revolution.