Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
77 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
1789
|
DATE OF THE BEGINNING OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
|
|
JUNE 1789
|
DATE OF THE FIRST MEETING OF THE ESTATES-GENERAL AND THE TENNIS COURT OATH
|
|
JULY 1789
|
DATE OF THE STORMING OF THE BASTILLE
|
|
JULY-AUGUST 1789
|
DATE OF THE GREAT FEAR
|
|
JUNE 1789-OCTOBER 1791
|
PERIOD OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
|
|
OCTOBER 1791-AUGUST 1792
|
PERIOD OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
|
|
SEPTEMBER 1792-JULY 1794
|
PERIOD OF THE NATIONAL CONVENTION
|
|
1794-1799
|
PERIOD OF THE DIRECTORY
|
|
1799
|
DATE OF NAPOLEON'S COUP D'ETAT
|
|
AUGUST 1792
|
DATE OF THE SECOND FRENCH REVOLUTION
|
|
1793
|
DATE OF THE EXECUTION OF KING LOUIS XVI
|
|
1793-1794
|
PERIOD OF THE REIGN OF TERROR
|
|
OLD REGIME
|
TERM THAT REFERS TO THE WAY FRANCE WAS BEFORE THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
|
|
ABSOLUTISM
|
GOVERNMENT WHERE SOMEONE HAS ALL OF THE POWER
|
|
CONSTITUTIONALISM
|
GOVERNMENT WHERE POWER IS SHARED
|
|
MERCANTILISM
|
GOVERNMENT-RUN ECONOMY THAT WAS PART OF THE OLD REGIME
|
|
CAPITALISM
|
FREE ENTERPRISE ECONOMIC SYSTEM THAT REPLACED MERCANTILISM AFTER THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
|
|
FIRST ESTATE
|
CLERICAL (CLERGY) ORDER IN THE ESTATES GENERAL
|
|
SECOND ESTATE
|
NOBLE ORDER IN THE ESTATES-GENERAL
|
|
TAILLE
|
TAX ON LAND
|
|
TITHE
|
CHURCH TAX
|
|
THIRD ESTATE
|
ORDER OF COMMONERS IN THE ESTATES-GENERAL
|
|
PEASANTRY
|
RURAL LOWER CLASS THAT WORKED ON THE LAND
|
|
BANALITE
|
FEES PAID BY PEASANTS IN THE OLD REGIME, FOR USE OF NOBLE OVENS, WINEPRESS, FORESTS, ETC.
|
|
CORVEE
|
UNPAID LABOR FORCED UPON PEASANTS IN THE OLD REGIME
|
|
BOURGEOISIE
|
URBAN MIDDLE CLASS
|
|
PARIS
|
CAPITAL OF FRANCE, WHERE MOST OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION OCCURRED
|
|
LOUIS XVI
|
KING OF FRANCE DURING FRENCH REVOLUTION
|
|
BOURBON
|
DYNASTY OF THE FRENCH KINGS IN THE OLD REGIME
|
|
ESTATES-GENERAL
|
OLD REGIME REPRESENTATIVE BODY OF FRANCE
|
|
VOTING BY ORDER
|
TRADITIONAL WAY OF VOTING IN ESTATES-GENERAL, IN WHICH EASCH ESTATE HAS ONE VOTE
|
|
VOTING BY HEAD
|
THIRD ESTATE-SUPPORTED WAY OF VOTING IN ESTATES-GENERAL, IN WHICH EASCH REPRESENTATIVE HAS ONE VOTE
|
|
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
|
LEGISLATURE OF FRANCE AFTER THE TENNIS COURT OATH
|
|
TENNIS COURT OATH
|
SWORN BY THIRD ESTATE IN JUNE 1789--POMISED TO WRITE A CONSTITUTION FOR FRANCE, AND GOVERN IT AS THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY UNTIL THAT CONSTITUTION WAS WRITTEN
|
|
BASTILLE
|
STORMED BY PARISIAN WORKERS JULY 1789
|
|
GREAT FEAR
|
PEASANT UPRISING IN THE SUMMER OF 1789
|
|
AUGUST 4 DECREES
|
1789 LEGISLATION BY NATIONAL ASSEMBLY THAT ENDED NOBLE PRIVILEGES IN FRANCE
|
|
DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN AND CITIZEN
|
1789 LEGISLATION BY NATIONAL ASSEMBLY THAT PROVIDED INDIVIDUAL FREEDOMS LIKE SPEECH AND PRESS
|
|
CIVIL CONSTITUTION OF THE CLERGY
|
1790 LEGISLATION BY NATIONAL ASSEMBLY THAT PUT THE CATHILIC CHURCH UNDER GOVERNMENT CONTROL
|
|
CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY
|
GOVERNMENT IN WHICH KING SHARES POWER, USUALLY WITH A LEGISLATURE
|
|
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
|
LEGISLATURE OF FRANCE AFTER THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY FINISHED WRITING CONSTITUTION AND DISBANDED
|
|
WAG THE DOG TACTICS
|
GOVERNMENT PRACTICE OF STARTING WAR TO UNIFY NATION AND DISTRACT FROM DOMESTIC PROBLEMS
|
|
COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY
|
ANYONE WHO ACTIVELY OPPOSES THE AIMS OF THE REVOLUTION
|
|
NATIONAL CONVENTION
|
GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHED AFTER THE 2ND FRENCH REVOLUTION
|
|
PARIS COMMUNE
|
RADICAL GROUP OF LOWER CLASS PARISIANS THAT PUSHED THE REVOLUTION TO BE MORE RADICAL
|
|
JACOBINS
|
POLITICAL PARTY OF RADICAL BOURGEOISIE
|
|
ROBESPIERRE
|
LEADER OF JACOBINS DURING REIGN OF TERROR
|
|
SECOND FRENCH REVOLUTION
|
AUGUST 1792 UPRISING THAT OVERTHREW THE MONARCHY AND REPLACED THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY WITH THE NATIONAL CONVENTION
|
|
REPUBLIC
|
GOVERNMENT WITHOUT A KING, USUALLY WITH REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT
|
|
REGICIDE
|
KILLING OF A KING
|
|
COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY
|
COMMITTEE WHOSE PURPOSE WAS TO IDENTIFY AND PUNISH ENEMIES OF THE REVOLUTION DURING THE REIGN OF TERROR
|
|
LEVEE EN MASSE
|
AUGUST 1793 UNIVERSAL MOBILIZATION OF FRANCE TO FIGHT EXTERNAL ENEMIES
|
|
REIGN OF TERROR
|
1793-4 PERIOD OF FRENCH REVOLUTION WHEN THOUSANDS OF SUSPECTED ENEMIES WERE EXECUTED
|
|
REACTION
|
POLITICAL ACTIVITY CAUSED BY A REPULSION AGAINST THE EXTREME POLICIES OF CURRENT GOVERNMENT AND A DESIRE TO RESTORE A PAST GOVERNMENT
|
|
THERMIDOR
|
NAME GIVEN TO THE JULY 1794 REACTION AGAINST THE REIGN OF TERROR AND OVERTHROW OF ROBESPIERRE/CPS
|
|
COUP D'ETAT
|
SUDDEN OVERTHROW OF A GOVERNMENT BY A SMALL BAND, USUALLY MILITARY
|
|
DIRECTORY
|
POST-THERMIDOR GOVERNMENT OF FRANCE, 1794-9
|
|
NAPOLEON
|
HIS COUP D'ETAT OVERTHREW THE DIRECTORY
|
|
NATIONALISM
|
IDENTIFICATION WITH AND PRIDE IN ONE'S NATION
|
|
FIRST CONSUL
|
TITLE NAPOLEON TOOK IN 1799, IN EMULATION OF CAESAR
|
|
CONSTITUTION OF 1801
|
NAPOLEON'S CONSTITUTION OFFERING TRADE-OFF TO FRENCH: EQUALITY IN EXCHANGE FOR LIBERTY
|
|
CIVIL CODE
|
NAPOLEON'S CENTRALIZATION OF FRENCH LAWS, ALSO CALLED NAPOLEONIC CODE
|
|
NAPOLEONIC CODE
|
NAPOLEON'S CENTRALIZATION OF FRENCH LAWS, ALSO CALLED CIVIL CODE
|
|
REPUBLIC
|
KINGLESS GOVERNMENT RULED BY REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PEOPLE
|
|
SECOND/ THIRD COALITIONS
|
MILITARY ENEMIES OF NAPOLEON 1799-1807 (AUSTRIA, RUSSIA, PRUSSIA, ENGLAND)
|
|
GRAND EMPIRE
|
NAPOLEON'S EMPIRE
|
|
CONFEDERATION OF THE RHINE
|
UNION OF GERMAN STATES, EXCEPT AUSTRIA & PRUSSIA
|
|
BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR
|
NAVAL DEFEAT OF NAPOLEON BY BRITAIN
|
|
CONTINENTAL SYSTEM
|
NAPOLEON'S ATTEMPT TO DEFEAT ENGLAND ECONOMICALLY BY BLOCKING BRITISH GOODS FROM REACHING THE EUROPEAN CONTINENT
|
|
NATIONALISM
|
STRONG PRIDE IN ONE'S NATION (PEOPLE, LANGUAGE, HISTORY, ETC.)
|
|
ONE HUNDRED DAYS
|
1814 RULE OF NAPOLEON AFTER HE ESCAPED FROM ELBA
|
|
BATTLE OF WATERLOO
|
FINAL BATTLE WHICH DEFEATED NAPOLEON
|
|
1799
|
DATE OF NAPOLEON'S COUP
|
|
1804
|
DATE OF NAPOLEON'S CROWNING AS EMPEROR
|
|
1805
|
DATE OF BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR
|
|
1812
|
DATE OF NAPOLEON'S INVASION OF RUSSIA
|
|
1815
|
DATE OF BATTLE OF WATERLOO
|