Term | Definition |
First Estate | The Clergy |
Third Estate | Everybody else who wasn't in the Third Estate; Commoners |
Bastille | A stone prison had become a hated symbol of oppression to the Parisians |
Napoleon | was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars. |
Napoleonic Code | Reflected some of the ideals of the Enlightenment and the Revolution. |
Declaration of the Rights of Man | Stated that the government belonged to the people as a whole |
Women's march on Versailles | On October 5, 1789, Parisian women rallied to protest the shortage of bread and the soaring food prices |
Suffrage | The right to vote |
Reign of Terror | A brutal program to silence critics of the government |
Grand Army | An Army made up of gathered troops from France and the conquered countries. |
Hundred Days | marked the period between Napoleon's return from exile on the island of Elba to Paris on 20 March 1815 |
Bourgeoisie (Second Estate) | Consisted of merchants, bankers, lawyers, doctors, intellectuals and government bureaucrats. |
Copernicus | Created the heliocentric theory, meaning the sun was the center of the universe and the Earth and all the other planets revolve around the sun. |
Bill of Rights | the first ten amendments |
Checks and Balances | prevented any other branch from gaining too much power |
Separation of Powers | an act of vesting the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of government in separate bodies. |
Stamp Act | an act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. |
Montesquieu | Wrote the Spirit of the laws and urged separation of powers in the book |
Rousseau | Argued that arts and sciences corrupted people's natural goodness. |
Locke | Believed that a person was not born good or evil, rather they are shaped by their experiences |
Hobbes | Wrote the book Leviathan |