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35 Cards in this Set
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old regime |
system of feudalism |
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estate |
social class of people |
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Louis vxi |
weak king who came to french throne in 1774 |
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Marie Antoinette |
unpopular queen |
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estate general |
Assembly ofrepresentatives from all three estates |
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National Assembly
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French congressestablished by representatives of theThird Estate
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Tennis Court Oath
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Promise made byThird Estate representatives to drawup a new 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 thatreplaced the National Assembly in1791
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émigrés
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Nobles and others who leftFrance during the peasant uprisingsand who hoped to come back torestore the old system
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sans-culottes
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Radical group ofParisian wage-earners
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Jacobin
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Member of the JacobinClub, a radical political organization
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guillotine
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Machine for beheadingpeople
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Maximilian Robespierre
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Revolutionary leader who tried towipe out every trace of France’s pastmonarchy and nobility
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Reign of Terror
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Period ofRobespierre’s rule
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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Military leaderwho seized power in France
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coup d’état
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A sudden takeover of agovernment
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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 schoo
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concordat
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agreement |
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Napoleonic Code
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Complete set oflaws set up by Napoleon thateliminated many injustices
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Battle of Trafalgar
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British defeat ofNapoleon’s forces at sea
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blockade |
Forced closing of ports
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continental |
Napoleon’spolicy of preventing trade andcommunication between GreatBritain and other European nations
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guerrilla |
guerrilla Spanish peasant fighter
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peninsular war |
War that Napoleonfought in Spain
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scorched-earth policy
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Policy ofburning fields and slaughteringlivestock so that enemy troopswould find nothing to eat
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Waterloo
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Battle in Belgium thatwas Napoleon’s final defeat
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Hundred Days
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Napoleon’s last bidfor power, which ended at Waterloo
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Congress of Vienna
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Meetings inVienna for the purpose of restoringorder to Europe
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Klemens von Metternich
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Key leaderat the Congress of Vienna
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balance of power
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Condition in whichno one country becomes a threat tothe other
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legitimacy
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Bringing back to powerthe kings that Napoleon had drivenout
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Holy Alliance
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League formed byRussia, Austria, and Prussia
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Concert of Europe
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Series of alliancesto help prevent revolution
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