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35 Cards in this Set
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Old Regime
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system of feudalism
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estate
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social class of people
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Louis XVI
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weak king who came to French throne in1774
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Marie Antoinette
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unpopular queen; wife of Louis XVI
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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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French congress established by representatives of the third estate
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Tenis Court Oath
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promise made by Third Estate representatives to draw up a mew constitution
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Great Fear
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wave of panic
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Legislative Assembly
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Assembly that replaced that National Assembly in 1791
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Émigrés
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Nobles and others who left France during the peasant uprisings and who hoped to come back to restore the old system
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Sans-culottes
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Radical group of parisian wage-earners
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Jacobin
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Remember of the Jacobin open club, a radical political organization
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Guullotine
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machine for beheading people
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Maximilien Robespierre
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Revolutionary leader who tried to wipe out every trace of France's past monarchy and nobility
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Reign of Terror
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period of Robespierre's rule
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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military leader who seized power in France
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Coup d'etat
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a sudden takeover of a government
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Plebiscite
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vote by the people
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Lycée
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government-run public school
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Concordat
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agreement
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Napoleonic Code
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complete set of laws set up by Napoleon that eliminated many injustices
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Battle of Trafalgar
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British defeat of Napoleon's forces at sea
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blockade
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forced closing of ports
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continental system
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Napoleon's policy of preventing trade and communication between Great Britain and other European nations
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guerilla
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Spanish peasant fighter
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peninsula war
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war that Napoleon fought in Spain
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scorched-earth policy
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policy of burning fields and slaughtering
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waterloo
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battle in Belgium that was Napoleon's final defeat
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hundred days
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Napoleon's last bid for power, which ended at Waterloo
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Congress of Vienna
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meetings in Vienna for the purpose of restoring order to Europe
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Klemens Con Metternich
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key leader at the congress of Vienna
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balance of power
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condition in which no one country becomes a threat to the other
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legitimacy
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bringing back to power the kings that Napoleon had driven out
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Holy Alliance
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league formed by Prussia, Russia, and Austria
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Concert of Europe
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series of alliances to help prevent revolution
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