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40 Cards in this Set
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Internal/External Factors
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Histoical, Political, Social, Economical and Geographical
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Long Term Causes
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Absolutism, Feudalism, Mercantilism, The Three Estates and The Enlightenment.
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Absolutism
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When the king/ queen has absolute power
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Feudalism
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A system of loyalties and obligations created between the peasant and the noble.
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Mercantilism
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an economic system strictly regulated and directed by the government, the monarch and his/her advisor
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The 3 Estates
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1st estate: clergy
2nd estate: nobles 3rd estate: everyone else |
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The Enlightenment
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changed the way of thinking for many people.
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The straw that broke the camels back...
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bankrupcy: caused by the building and maintenance of the palace of versailles
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step 1 of the revolution
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louis XVI calls a meeting of the estates general.
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step 2 of the revolution
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The third estate calls them selfs the national assembly.and refuse to follow the old voting procedure.
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Estates General
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Made up of the 3 estates with elected members from each state
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Tennis court oath
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Louis is angered by the national assembly so he locks them out of their meeting room... they move to the tennis court and vow to "never leave until they have drawn up a new constitition of france"
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step 3 of the revolution
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louis brings in 18000 troops to surround the palace, fear amongst the people out side the palace rises that louis will use the troops to crush the national assembly
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step 4 of the revolution
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The storming of the bastille
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The bastille
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an old fort and symbol of the old regime and tyranny in france
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Significance of the storming of the bastille
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signifies the beginning of the revolution and the beginnings of the french collective conciuosness and marks the symbolic end of the old regime
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declaration of the rights of man
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issued: 178 - states that the state, not the monarch, has power and control - beginning of the notion of civic nationalism
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Olympe De Gouges
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and early feminist who demanded that french women be given the same rights as french men
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Voltaire
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A french enlightenment writer
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Louis XIV
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longest documented reign said that he is the state
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Louis XVI
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last king of france, weak leader
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Marie Antoinette
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queen of france, she spent lots of money earning the name madam deficit. didnt say let them eat cake
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robespierre
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a strong revolutionary, helped create the decaration of rights of man. tried to hang himself but failed and then was guilloteined.
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Danton
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first president of the committee of public safety known as the cheif force in the overthrow of the monarchyand the establishment of the first french republic.
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morat
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an extreme voice in the revolution. murdered in his bathtub by charlotte corday
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russeau
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wrote many important contributions as a theorist and a member of the jacobins
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napolion was born in?
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corsica
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napolion obsessed over...
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great men
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napolions second obsession was...
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fire power (guns n such)
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napolion bacame an officer at age...
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16
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napolion was given comand of the french army in...
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1795
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napoilions strategies were to...
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devide and concour
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napolion chose _____ as the place to confront britian.
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egypt
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greatest discovery by napolion was the ______ and the did what?
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rossetta stone - helped translate the hydroglifics into latin/greek
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while napolion was the consol of france he established....
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a code of laws, abolished serfdo., encouraged religious tollerance and made education top priority
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napolions greaetest foe...
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england
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napolion developed the _____ system that did what...
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continental system that barred british ships from carying goods to the continent
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napolions greatest mistake...
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envading russia
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napolion was exiled to...
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elba first and then st. helana second...
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napolion was defeated in...
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waerloo by the british army
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