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24 Cards in this Set
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BOURGEOISIE |
the middle class |
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MERCENARY |
a person who is paid to fight in a foreign army |
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COALITION |
a temporary alliance between groups for some specific purpose |
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CONSPIRATORS |
people involved in a secret plot |
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CANNONADE |
bombardment with heavy artillery fire |
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BLOCKADE |
a forcible closing of ports |
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HOLY ALLIANCE |
a league of European nations formed by the leaders of Russia, Austria, and Prussia after the Congress of Vienna |
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BALANCE OF POWER |
a political situation in which no one nation is powerful enough to pose a threat to others |
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CONGRESS OF VIENNA |
a series of meetings in 1814-1815 during which the European leaders sought to establish long-lasting peace and security after the defeat of Napolean |
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ESTATE |
one of the three social classes in France before the French Revolution |
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GREAT FEAR |
a wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille in 1789 |
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GUILLOTINE |
a machine for beheading people, used as a means of execution during the French Revolution |
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MAXIMILIEN ROBESPIERRE |
a leader who, along with his supporters, set out to buiild a republic of virtue |
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COUP D'ETAT |
sudden seizure of power |
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NAPOLEONIC CODE |
a comprehensive and uniform system of laws established for France by Napoleon |
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WATERLOO |
a village in Belgium where Napolean attacked and the British defended their ground |
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CONCERT OF EUROPE |
a series of alliances among European nations in the 19th century, to prevent the outbreak of revolutions |
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PENINSULAR WAR |
a conflict, lasting from 1808-1813, in which Spanish rebels fought to drive Napoleon's French troops out of Spain |
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HUNDRED DAYS |
the brief period during 1815 when Napoleon made his last bid for power, deposing the French king and again becoming emperor of France |
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PLEBISCITE |
a direct vote in which a country's people have the opportunity to approve or reject a proposal |
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NAPOLEON BONAPARTE |
came to be recognized as one of the world's greatest military geniuses. In only four yearsw, Napoleon rose from relative obscurity to become Master of France |
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BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR |
an 1805 naval battle in which Napoleon's forces were defeated by a British fleet under the command of Horatio Nelson |
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LYCEE |
a government-run public school in France |
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CONCORDAT |
a formal agreement- especially one between the pope and a government, dealing with the control of church affairs |
