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19 Cards in this Set
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Old Regime |
The political and social system that existed in France before the French Revolution |
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Estate |
One of the three social classes in france before the French Revolution
- 1st estate= Clergy - 2nd estate= Nobility -3rd estate = rest of the population |
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Louis XVI |
Was the King of France from 1754-1793. He wanted to improve the lives of the common people. Through failed due to lack of ability to make decisions. |
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Estates-General |
An assembly of representatives from all three of the estates or social classes,in France. |
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National Assembly |
A French congress established by representatives of the 3rd estate on June 17, 1789, to enact laws and reforms in the name of the French people. |
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Tennis Court Oath |
A pledge made by the members of France's National Assembly in 1789, in which they vowed to conitnue meeting until they had drawn up a new constitution. |
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Great Fear |
A wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the sotrming of the Bastille in 1789 |
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Legistative Assembly |
A French congress with the power to create laws and approve declarations of war, established by the constitution fo 1791 |
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Guillotine |
A machine for beheading people, used as a means of execution during the French Revolution |
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Maximillien Robespierre |
A Jacobin leader who gained a lot of power in 1793. Leader of the Committee of Public Safety, virtually french dictator |
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Reign of Terror |
The period from mid-1793 to mid-1794, when Maximilien Robespierre ruled Franch nearly as a dictator and thousands of political figures and ordiany citizens were executed. |
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Napoleon Bonapare |
1769-1821; A known army general for winning many wars. Made himself King of France in November of 1799. |
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Coup d' etat |
A suden seizure of political power in a nation |
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Plebiscite |
A direct vote in which a country's people have the opportunity to approve or reject a proposal |
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Napoleonic Code |
A comprehensive and uniform system of laws established for France by Napolean. |
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Blockade |
The use of troops or ships to prevent commercial traffic from entering/leaving a city or region |
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Continental System |
Napolean's policy of preventing trade between Great Britain and coninental Europe, intended to destroy Great Britain's economy. |
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Scorched-Earth Policy |
The preactice of burning crops and killing livestock during wartime so that the enemy cannot live of the land |
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Congress of Vienna |
A series of meeting in 1814-1815, during which the European leaders saught to establish long-lasting peace and security after the defeat of Napolean. |
