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bourgeoisie
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the city-dwelling middle class
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made up of merchants, manufactureers, and professional people usch as doctors and lawyers.
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conscription
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All unmarried, able-bodied men between 18 and 25 were liable for militay service.
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the draft
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counterrevolutionary
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aimed counterto (or against) the revolution
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counter ________
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coup d'etat
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a seizure of power by force
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stroke of state.
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Enlightened Despotism
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absolute monarchs ruled
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system of gov.`
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Emigre
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noble who fled France during the revolution
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emigrant....
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nationalism
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love of one's country rather than love of one's native region
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united...
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philosophe
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study of the most fundamental questions of reality and human existence
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your input on something
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plebiscite
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procedure used to submit the constitution of a new govenment to the people for a vote
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gettin something to the people to vote on
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popular sovereignty
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governmental principle based on just laws and on a government created by and subject to the will of the people
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government based on the popularity by the peopl
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rationalism
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belief that truth can be arrived at solely by reason,or logical thinking
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thinking for a reason
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reactionary
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extremist who not only oppose change, but generally would like to return to the way things were before certain changes occurred
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hate change and react to it
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salon
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gathering of the social, political, and cultural elite in France during the Inlightenment
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lalal
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universal Manhood Sufferage
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election process that allowed every man to vote regardless of whether he owned property
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discrimination universally
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Montesquieu believed that the best form of government would have what?
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Power was divided: legislative, executive and judicial
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Roussear believed that society was corrupt because of what?
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environment education and laws
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How did voltaire change the practices that he thought were unfair?
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he attacked them by writing plays, histories, essays, poems, and books.
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Why did France have financial problems?
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from the wars of Louis XIV and the next king only made the depts bigger.
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The reign of Terror was designed to do what?
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to behead people suspected of disloyalty
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When did the reign of terror end?
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july 1794
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seperation of powers
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Montesquieu
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natural rights-life, liberty, property
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Locke
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Freedom of thought an expression/ wrote Candide
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Voltaire
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Direct democracy/ wrote The Social Contract
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Rousseau
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wrote Leviathan/ believed people first lived in anarchy and he considered it a state of nature
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Hobbes
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edited the Encyclopedia..their wrtings criticized the church, the government, the slave trade, torture, taxes, and war. was imprisoned with several other philosohes.
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diderot
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