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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 XVI |
I Weak king who came toFrench throne in 177 |
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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 |
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 agovernment |
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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 ea |
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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 |
Meetings inVienna for the purpose of restoringorder to Europe |
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Klemens von Metternich |
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 |