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Ch 19 Vocab
Ch 19
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ancien Regime | a political or social system that has been displaced typically by one more modern. |
| Jacques Necker | was a French statesman of Swiss birth and finance minister of Louis XVI |
| Cahiers | |
| Tennis Court Oath | was a pivotal event during the first days of the French Revolution. |
| National Assembly | an elected legislature in various countries |
| Bastille | was a fortress in Paris |
| Bourgeoisie | the middle class |
| Deficit Spending | government spending, in excess of revenue, of funds raised by borrowing rather than from taxation. |
| Great Fear | a period of panic and riot by peasants and others amid rumors of an “aristocratic conspiracy” by the king and the privileged to overthrow the Third Estate. |
| Tri Color | a term to describe a bay or bay based pinto horse |
| Legislative Assembly | persons who make or amend or repeal laws |
| Declaration of Pilnitz | Declaration of Pillnitz was a statement issued on 27 August 1791 at Pillnitz Castle near Dresden by the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II and Frederick William II of Prussia |
| Jacobins | a member of a democratic club established in Paris in 1789. |
| Faction | a small, organized, dissenting group within a larger one, esp. in politics. |
| Emigre | a person who has left their own country in order to settle in another, usually for political reasons. |
| Republic | a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives |
| Committee of Public Safety | formed the de facto executive government in France during the Reign of Terror, a stage of the French Revolution. ... |
| Maximilian Robespierre | was a French lawyer and politician |
| Directory | |
| Olympe de Gouges | French playwright and political activist whose feminist and abolitionist writings |
| La Marseillaise | is the national anthem of France |
| Jacques Louis David | French neoclassical painter who actively supported the French Revolution |
| Suffrage | the right to vote in political elections |
| Nationalism | patriotic feeling, principles, or efforts |
| Secular | denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis. |
| consulate | |
| Concordat of 1801 | |
| Napoleonic Code | |
| Confederation of the Rhine | |
| Battle of Trafalgar | |
| Continental System | |
| Plebiscite | |
| Annex | |
| Blockade | |
| Joseph Bonaparte | |
| Duke of wellington | |
| Marie Louise | |
| Scorched Earth Policy | |
| Waterloo | |
| Clemens Von Metternich | |
| Quadruple Alliance | |
| Guerrilla Warfare | |
| Adbicate | |
| Legitimacy | lawfulness by virtue of being authorized or in accordance with law |
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