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nationalism
| Definition | Term |
|---|---|
| name of the system in which French society was set up | Ancien Régime |
| originally intended to mean to turn a blind eye or look the other way when observing inappropriate behaviour; now also refers to a diplomacy strategy to avoid conflict | appeasement |
| a member of a people considered by Nazis to be a group of superior human beings | Aryan |
| certificates representing the value of Church lands; used as currency during the revolution | Assignats |
| independence or sovereignty | autonomy |
| the prison in Paris that was symbolic of royal power | Bastille |
| recognition of two official languages | bilingualism |
| nickname for Louis XVI under new citizenship rules in which those recognized as citizens of the republic were addressed as Citizen, along with their family name | Citizen Capet |
| a legislative policy that placed the Catholic Church under the power of the National Assembly and created elections for the selection of priests | Civil Constitution of the Clergy |
| the identity shared by a group of people | collective |
| the shared feeling of “we” among the individuals of a group | collective consciousness |
| an executive body of the National Convention that monitored actions considered anti-republic | Committee of Public Safety |
| a set of rules dictating how government would operate | constitution |
| a system of government that by law restricts the power of the king to the rules and approval of government | Constitutional monarchy |
| to compete with another | contend |
| a belief in or show of support for an idea, a person, a group, or a nation that competes with a belief in or support for another | contending loyalties |
| a work tax which required peasants to provide unpaid labour building roads and bridges | corvée |
| the land of a person’s birth, residence, or citizenship; a political state or nation or its territory | country |
| a list of the rights based on equality and freedom encouraged by the members of the National Assembly | Declaration of the Rights of Man |
| the act or process of the achievement of the status of a sovereign nation-state by a former colony | decolonization |
| a body of government with the power to rule France in the hands of five directors | Directory |
| the emergence and exchange of ideas based on scientific reasoning about how society should operate during an eighteenth-century period in western Europe | Enlightenment |
| a general assembly of representatives of the three estates that formed French society before the revolution in 1789 | Estates General |
| the beliefs, values, and actions related to the idea that one’s group is superior over other groups | ethnocentrism |
| system that divides political power between a central government and regional or provincial governments | federalism |
| : the rights and exemptions of members of the Ancien Régime (members of the First and Second Estates) | feudal privileges |
| a Nazi Party plan to rapidly and efficiently deal with the removal of all members of the Jewish race by establishing extermination camps | Final Solution |
| members of the clergy (many of who came from aristocratic families) | First Estate |
| a plan of action that guides the relationship and decisions a particular country establishes with another country or nation | foreign policy |
| reference to English or French as one of the first European groups to have settled in Canada | founding culture |
| a salt tax | gabelle |
| a political club that promoted the abolition of the monarchy and rights for all citizens | Girondin |
| matters of interest and/or matters affecting the international community | global affairs |
| (1914–1918) the first modern war of the twentieth century in which many of the world’s countries were involved; later renamed in context of the second global war | World War I |
| writers and philosophers who expressed ideas about how society should operate | intellectuals |
| the collective responsibility to global challenges balanced with respect for the interests of nations and nation-states; the sense of belonging to the global community with shared bonds as global citizens | internationalism |
| a political club considered more radical than the Girondin and encouraged revolt to achieve a republic | Jacobin |
| a song written by poet Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in 1792; intended as a military song and then later the rally song for the revolution | La Marseillaise |
| the government in the form of a constitutional monarchy that replaced the National Assembly | Legislative Assembly |
| the firm belief in or the show of support for an idea, a person, a group, or a nation; may be a commitment to your nation or to shared ideas or bonds to individuals or groups outside of your nation | loyalty |
| framework that encourages the maintenance of ethnic, linguistic, and cultural backgrounds of individuals and groups | multiculturalism |
| recognition of the sovereignty of many nations within a single system | multination |
| a shared state of mind or shared characteristics such as beliefs, language, religion, traditions, cultures, and customs | nation |
| a territorial division containing a body of people of one or more nationalities and usually characterized by relatively large size and independent status | nation |
| a country that has physical borders and a single government | nation-state |
| connection to nation | national affiliation |
| the original government to seize power, formed after the creation of the Tennis Court Oath and the Declaration of the Rights of Man | National Assembly |
| the name of the republican government that ruled France after the removal and execution of Louis XVI | National Convention |
| collective identity of a group or a nation | national identity |
| the priorities or areas in which a nation will act or make decisions in order to maintain the key aspects of what it is as a nation | national interests |
| the stories, symbols, and shared experiences of a group of people | national memory |
| a feeling of belonging to or having a bond with a group of individuals who share common understandings about all or some of these ideas: land, ethnicity, culture, language, spirituality, religion, and citizenship | nationalism |
| commitment (for example, political, cultural, linguistic, geographical, or spiritual) to the nation to which you belong | nationalist loyalty |
| power to control your own affairs as a nation | national self-determination |
| observable laws of interaction between people, animals, plants, and the environment that are applied to how individuals in society interact | natural laws |
| a commitment to an ideology, to a social group, to a way of life, to a region, or to a religious or spiritual organization; may extend beyond the borders of a nation; may be shared with individuals of different nations | non-nationalist loyalty |
| partnership between the nation-states of North America to share common political and economic frameworks; similar to the European Union | North American integration |
| individual identity, including ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and individual preferences | personal |
| writers and philosophers who expressed ideas about how society should operate | philosophes |