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Old Regime
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social and political system of France in the 1770s
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estates
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Three large social classes
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Louis XVI
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the king of france from 1754-1793.He picked ability to make descisions and determination.
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Marie Antionette
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Queen of France,she was unpopular because she had the best dresses and gambled much money away
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Estates General
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an assembly of representatives from all three of the estates, or social classes, in France.
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National Assembly
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a French congress established by representatives of the Third Estate on June 17, 1789, to enact laws and reforms in the name of the French people
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Tennis court oath
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a pledge made by the members of France's National Assembly in 1789, in which they vowed to continue meeting until they had drawn up a new constitution
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Great Fear
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The panic and insecurity that struck French peasants in the summer of 1789 and led to their widespread destruction of manor houses and archives.
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Legislative Assembly
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a French congress with the power to create laws and approve declarations of war, established by the constitution of 1791.
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Emigre
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A person who leaves his native counrty for political reasons, like the nobles & others who fled France during the peasnt upsprings of the Frech Revolution.
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Sans-Culottes
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In the French Revolution,a radical group made up of Parsian wage earners and small shop keepers who wanted a greater voice in govt lower prices and an end to food shortages
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Jacobin
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(in the French Revolution) a member of a radical society or club of revolutionaries that promoted the Reign of Terror and other extreme measures, active chiefly from 1789 to 1794: so called from the Dominican convent in Paris, where they originally met.
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Guillotine
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a machine for beheading people, used as a means of execution during the French Revolution.
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Maximillian Robespierre
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1785 to 1794,french lawyer and revolutionary leader
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Reign of Terror
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the period, from mid-1793 to mid-1794, when Robespierre ruled France nearly as a dictator and thousands of political figures and ordinary citizens were executed
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Napolean Bonaparte
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military and political leader of france
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coup d etat
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A sudden seizure of political power in a nation
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plebiscite
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a direct vote in which a country's people have the opportunity to approve or reject a proposal
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lycee
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a government-run public school in France
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concordant
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a formal agreement especiallyone between the pope and a goverment dealing with the control of french affairs
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Napoleanic code
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a comprehensive and uniform system of laws established for France by Napolean
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Battle of Trafalgar
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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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blockade
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The use of troops or ships to prevent commercial traffic from entering or leaving a city or region
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Continental System
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Napoleon's policy of preventing trade between Great Britain and continental Europe, intended to destroy Great Britain's economy.
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guerrilla
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a member of a loosely organized fighting force that makes surprise attacks on enemy troops occupying his or her country.
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Peninsular War
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a conflict, lasting from 1808 to 1813, in which Spanish Rebels, with the aid of British forces, fought to drive Napoleons French troops out of Spain.
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scorched - earth policy
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the practice of burning crops and killing livestock during wartime so that the enemy can not live off the land
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Waterloo
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the battle on 18 June 1815 in which Napoleon met his final defeat, Located in Belgium, the place where the british army and the prussian army forces attacked the french. Napoleon's final defeat against the British and Prussians
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Hundred Days
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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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Congress of Vienna
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a series of meetings in 1814-1815, during which the European leaders sought to establish long-lasting peace and security after the defeat of Napoleon
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Klemens Von Metternich
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the Austrian foreign minister who was the leader of the Congress of Vienna; claimed that he was guided by the principal of legitimacy
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balance of power
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a political situation in which no one nation is powerful enough to pose a threat to others
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legitimacy
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hereditary right of a monarch to rule
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Holy Alliance
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a league of European nations formed by the leaders of Russia, Austria, and Prussia after the congress of Vienna
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Concert of Europe
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a series of alliances among European nations in the 19th century, devised by Prince Klemens von Metternich to prevent the outbreak of revolutions
