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Unit 5

Unit 5 vocab

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Absolute monarch Ruler with complete authority over the government and lives off the people he or she governs.
Louis XIV Sun King. Built the Palace of Versailles. King of France.
Versailles Royal French residence built by King Louis XIV.
Peter the Great Russian leader. Known as the Great Reformer. Tried to Westernize Russia.
Westernization Adoption of western ideas, technology, and culture.
Social contract an agreement by which people gave up their freedom to a powerful government in order to avoid chaos.
Natural rights Right that belongs to all humans from birth, such as life, liberty, and property.
Laissez faire policy allowing business to operate with little or no government interference
Estate social class
Bourgeoisie the middle class
Deficit spending situation in which a government spends more money than it takes in.
Louis XVI French King married to Marie Antoinette. Beheaded by the guillotine during the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution
Estate-general legislative body made up of representatives of the three estates in pre-revolutionary France.
Marie Antoinette Queen of France, married to Louis XVI. Beheaded by the guillotine during the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution.
Jacobins member of a radical political club during the French Revolution.
Robespierre Leader of the Committee of Public Safety and leader behind the Reign of Terror. Beheaded by the guillotine himself.
Reign of Terror period during the French Revolution when people in France were arrested for not supporting the revolution and many were executed
Guillotine device used during the Reign of Terror to execute thousands by beheading.
Nationalism a strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one’s country.
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