French Revolution
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| Battle of Waterloo
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| The middle class, especially in France | Bourgeoisie
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| Napoleon’s plan to ruin Britain’s trade by forbidding France’s allies and countries under French rule to import British products | Continental System
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| A movement that opposes a revolution and attempts to restore the government previously in power | Counterrevolution
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| The sudden overthrow of a government | Coup d’etat
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| A document issued by the National Assembly during the French Revolution. The Declaration stated that government belonged to the people as a whole. The aim of government, it said, was to preserve the “natural rights” of liberty and equality | Declaration of the Rights of Man
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| This was an assembly of delegates from the three Estates in France | Estates General
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| A noble who fled France during the Revolution | Émigrés
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| Under the Old Regime in France, the social class made up of the clergy | First Estate
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| The rebellion of the French people, beginning in 1789, against the monarchy and the class structure of the Old Regime | French Revolution
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| The most radical groups of French revolutionaries were centered in Paris and included an political club called the Jacobins. Georges Danton was a lawyer and one of the most prominent leaders of the Jacobins | Georges Danton
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| One of the moderate members of the French National Convention | Girondists
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| A type of warfare in which small groups of fighters make surprise attacks | Guerilla warfare
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| Jacobins | A member of the most radical group in the French National Convention
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| Louis XVI | French King whose demand for higher taxes touched off the French Revolution
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| French queen, wife of Louis XVI | Marie Antoinette
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| Also a member of the Jacobins. He was the leading member of the Committee of Public Safety…he hated the Old Regime and wanted to create a new and better society. Ruthless in his pursuit of this goal, he became a tyrant. He began the Reign of Terror | Maxmilien Robespierre
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| French general who overthrew the Directory in 1799 and declared himself emperor in 1804; exiled to St. Helena in 1815 | Napoleon
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| The code of laws commissioned by Napoleon in 1800, which stated that all men should be treated as equals | Napoleonic Code
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| A feeling of devotion and pride in one’s country | Nationalism
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| The French political and social system in the years before 1798 | Old Regime
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| An alliance formed in the early 1800s by Prussia, Austria, Russia, and Great Britain to prevent France from dominating Europe | Quadruple Alliance
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| A person who favors drastic change | Radicals
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| A period (1793-1794) when brutal measures were used to eliminate enemies and critics of the revolutionary republic set up in France | Reign of Terror
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| Under the Old Regime in France, the social class made up of the nobility | Second Estate
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| The right to vote | Suffrage
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| The Third Estate’s delegates decided to force the Estates to meet as one body. On June 17, 1789, they declared themselves the National Assembly and invited the other Estates to join them. | The National Assembly
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| The largest social class under the Old Regime in France, made up of peasants, city workers, and the middle class | Third Estate
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| Haitian revolutionary and statesman | Toussaint L’Overture
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| A palace in France built as the home for Louis XIV | Versailles
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| July 14, 1789 event; first symbolic act of violence against the monarchy the beginning of the French Revolution | Storming of the Bastille
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| When women in response to the dramatic increase in teh price of bread stormed the palace of Versailles and demanded that Luis XVI and Marie Antoinette return to Paris | Women's March on Versailles
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| A series of meetings in Vienna and of the Napolean Wars ro set up policies to redraw boundaries of Europe and stablish a European balance of power | Congress of Vienna
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| The most influential figure at the Congress of Vienna | Clemens Von Metternich
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