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ap euro 19 terms
Term | Definition |
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revolution | a fundamental change in the political and social organization of a state. |
old order | the political and social system of France in the eighteenth century before the Revolution |
sans-culottes | “without breeches.” The common people, who did not wear the fine clothes of the upper classes and played an important role in the radical phase of the French Revolution. |
Girondins | a faction in the National Convention during the French Revolution that favored keeping the king alive; so-called because their leaders came from the Gironde in southwestern France. |
Mountain | a faction in the National Convention during the French Revolution that represented the interests of the city of Paris and favored the execution of the king |
nation in arms | the people’s army raised by universal mobilization to repel the foreign enemies of the French Revolution. |
de-Christianization | a policy, adopted in the radical phase of the French Revolution, aimed at creating a secular society by eliminating Christian forms and institutions from French society. |
prefects | officials appointed by the central government to oversee all aspects of a local government during the reign of Napoleon. |
Continental System | Napoleon’s effort to bar British goods from the continent in the hope of weakening Britain’s economy and destroying its capacity to wage war. |
nationalism | a sense of national consciousness based on awareness of being part of a community—a “nation”—that has common institutions, traditions, language, and customs and that becomes the focus of the individual’s primary political loyalty. |