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Another name for "class system"
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Three estates
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There's 3 of them
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First estate
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Catholic clergy
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Worked in the church
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Second estate
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Nobility
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Third estate
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Everyone else (peasants, merchants, craftsmen)
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Two parts of the First estate
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Higher and lower clergy
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Amount of land owned by Second estate
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25%
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Bourgeoise
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Another name for the middle class
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1774
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Louis XVI became king
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Wife of Louis XVI
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Marie Anoinette
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1789
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Louis XVI summoned the Estates-General
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Estates-General
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Made up of delegates representing each estate; each estate got one vote; 1st &2nd estate always dominated the third
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National Assembly
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3rd estate formed this after they were locked out from the estates-general
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Tennis Court Oath
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A promise not to disband until they had written a constitution for France
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The Bastille
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A Paris prison which was stormed due to fear that the king would dissolve the National Assembly and halt reforms; represented injustices of the monarchy
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Great Fear
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A wave of violence throughout France that was triggered by the storming of the Bastille
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Royalists
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Favored an absolute monarchy
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Moderates rad
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Wanted a king to share power with a new legislature (Marquis de Lafayette was a moderate)
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Radicals
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Wanted to end the monarchy and intitute a new order
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August 1789
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Nobles agreed to give up their privileges & agreed that any male citizen could hold office
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Declaration of Rights
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Incorporated enlightenment ideas, declared all people are equal before law, guaranteed freedom of speech, press, religion, etc. (late august 1789)
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March to Versailles
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A mob of women chased the long and his fam from Versailles to Paris because he refused the reforms; after this, they continued to move forward.
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3 main reforms
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Church land was sold, declaration of rights, and nobility reforms
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1791
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New constitution: created a constitutional monarchy and a unicameral legislature (only made the moderates happy)
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Sat on the right
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Royalists
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Sat on the left sat
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Radicals
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Sat in the middle
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Moderates
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June 1791
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King and fam tried to escape to Austria but failed; France declared war on Austria
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National Convention
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Radicals met from 1792-1795 to create first democratic constitution, created metric system, adopted new calendar
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Guillotine
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A more humane way of performing beheadings; the way Louis XVI was killed(1793)
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Jacobins
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Extreme radicals, led by Maximilien Robespierre; formed The Mountain
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Conscription comm
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A draft that France was forced to adopt in 1793 to repel foreign invasion
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Committee of Public Safety
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Formed by the National Convention to direct the war effort
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Reign of Terror
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July 1793-1794, jacobins set out to crush their enemies within France
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Republic of Virtue
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Created by jacobins; set up schools, abolished slavery, encouraged religious toleration; opposed Catholicism; created worship of a Supreme Being
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Spring 1794
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Robespierre was executed because he refused to end the Reign of Terror
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1795he
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Convention wrote new constitution; set up an executive council
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The Directory
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Ruled with a two house legislature
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Napoleon Bonapartewifen
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Young general from Corsica
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Wife of Bonaparte
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Josephine
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Coup d'état
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A seizure of power; Bonaparte attempted this in 1799
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Dictatorship
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A gov headed by an absolute ruler; Bonaparte ruled this way after naming himself emperor (1804)
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Napoleonic Code
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Replaced old royal laws
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Battle of Trafalgar
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Ended Bonapartes hopes of conquering the Brits
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1812wil
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Brits helped the Spanish overthrow the French
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Winter Soldier of Russia
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Ultimately destroyed Bonapartes 600,000 man army he put together to fight the Russians in May 1812
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ElbaHin
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An island Bonaparte was sent to after he was forced to abdicate as emperor
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Hundred Days
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Time period Bonaparte again reigned as emperor after he escaped from Elba
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Waterloo
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Bonaparte was finally defeated here by British Duke of Wellington
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Helena
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Bonaparte was sent here after defeat and died in 1821
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