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Chapter 19
World History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ancien regime | or old order everyone in France belonged to one of three classes. |
| Jacques Necker | the fiance mister for Louis XVI |
| cahiers | or notebooks. |
| Tennis Court Oath | that men in the Third Class could all vote intstead of having only one. |
| National Assembly | was a group that want justice from the king and met to make a constution. |
| Bastille | in medieval fortress used as a prison for politcal and other prisoners. |
| bourgoisies | or middle class |
| deficit spending | that is a governemnt spending more money than it has. |
| Great Fear | tales of attacks on villages and towns spread panic. |
| tricolor | a flag with three bands or block of differnt colors. |
| Legislative Assenbly | was the legislature of france during the french revolution. |
| Declaration of Pilnitz | was a statement issues in 1791 at the Pilnitz Castle by the Hamburg Holy Roman Emperor. |
| Jacobins | someone who supports a centralized Republic. |
| faction | or small groups competed to gain power. |
| emigres | nobles clergy and others who had led France and its revolutionary forces. |
| republic | or a government ruled not by a monarch but by elected representatives. |
| Committe of Public Safety | to deal with the threats to France the Convention created the Committe of Public Saftey. The 12th member committe had almost absolute power as it battled to save the revolution. |
| Maximillien Robespierre | was a shrewd lawyer and politician qucikly rose to the leadership of the Committee of Public safety. |
| Directory | five man directory and a two house legislature elected by mal citizen of property. |
| Olympe de Gouges | a journalist demanded equal rights in her DEclaration of the rights of women. |
| La Marseillaise | would later become french national athem. |
| Jacques Louis David | he immortalized on canvas such stirring events as the Tennis Court Oath and later Napoleon conronation. |
| suffrage | the right to vote was to be extended to all male citizens not just to property owners. |
| nationalism | a strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one country spread throughout france. |
| secular | or nonreligious calendar with 1793 as the Year I of the new era of freedom. |
| Consulate | Napoleon consolidated his power by strengthening the central government. |
| Concordat of 1801 | was an agreement between Napoleon and Pope Puis allowing Napoleon to pick the bishop but give the pope all the power over them. |
| Napoleonic Code | lasting reforms was a new law code it embodied Enlightenment principles such as the equality of all citizens befroe the law,religious, toleration and advancement based on merit. |
| Confederation of the Rhine | was an abolished the tottering Holy Roman Empire and created a 38-member under the french protection. |
| Battle of Trafalgar | fought off the south west coast of spain british admiral horatio nelson smashed a french fleet. |
| Continental System | failed to bring Britian to it knee. |
| plebiscite | or ballot in which voters say yes or no. |
| annexed | or added outright some areas to france. |
| blockade | involves shutting of ports to keep people or supplies from moving in and out of enemy ports. |
| Joseph Bonaparte | was the elder broth of Napoleon. |
| Duck of Wellington | was a British general who defeated Napoleon. |
| Marie Louise | was the second wife of french king Napoleon 1 |
| Waterloo | June 18 1815 the opposing armies met near the town of Waterloo in Belgium. Where the french and Napoleon get defended. |
| Scorched earth policy | is a military strategy which involves destorying anything usefull to the enemy. |
| Clemens von Metternich | foregin minister used a variety of means to achieve his goals In 1809 when Napoleon seemed vulnerable |
| Quadruple Alliance | the four nations pledged to act together to maintain the balance of power and to suppress revolutionary uprisings. |
| guerrilla warfare | or hit and run raods against the French. |
| abdicated | or stepped down from power. |
| legitimacy | restoring hereditary monarchies that the french Revolution or Napoleon had unseated. |
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