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35 Cards in this Set
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Old Regime |
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 toFrench throne in 1774
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Marie Antoinette |
Unpopular queen;wife of Louis XVI |
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Estates-General |
Assembly ofrepresentatives from all three estates |
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National Assembly |
French congressestablished by representatives of theThird Estate |
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Tennis Court Oath |
Promise made byThird Estate representatives to drawup a new constitution |
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great fear |
wave of panic |
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Legislative Assembly |
Assembly thatreplaced the National Assembly in1791 |
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émigrés |
Nobles and others who leftFrance during the peasant uprisingsand who hoped to come back torestore the old system |
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sans-culottes |
radical group ofParisian wage-earners |
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Jacobin |
Member of the JacobinClub, a radical political organization |
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guillotine
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Machine for beheadingpeople
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Maximilien Robespierre |
Revolutionary leader who tried towipe out every trace of France’s pastmonarchy and nobility |
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Reign of Terror |
Period ofRobespierre’s rule |
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Napoleon Bonaparte |
Military leaderwho seized power in France |
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coup d’état |
A sudden takeover of agovernmen |
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plebiscite |
vote by the people |
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lycée |
Government-run public school |
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concordat |
agreement |
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Napoleonic Code |
Complete set oflaws set up by Napoleon thateliminated many injustices |
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Battle of Trafalgar |
British defeat ofNapoleon’s forces at sea |
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blockade |
forced closing of ports |
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Continental System |
Napoleon’spolicy of preventing trade andcommunication between GreatBritain and other European nations |
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guerrilla |
Spanish peasant fighter |
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Peninsular War |
War that Napoleonfought in Spain |
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scorched-earth policy |
Policy ofburning fields and slaughteringlivestock so that enemy troopswould find nothing to eat |
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waterloo |
Battle in Belgium thatwas Napoleon’s final defeat |
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hundred days |
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 |
Condition in whichno one country becomes a threat tothe other
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legitimacy |
Bringing back to powerthe kings that Napoleon had drivenout
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holy alliance |
League formed byRussia, Austria, and Prussia
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concert of europe |
Series of alliancesto help prevent revolution
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