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WHAG-23a
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Taxes and Debt | created misery and the desire for revolution among Frenchmen |
| Louis XVI | lacked management skills |
| American Revolution | its success made French want to try something similar |
| French Revolution | failed to improve government or society, killed thousands of innocent civilians |
| Marie Antoinette | queen and wife of Louis XVI; perceived as self-indulgent |
| Bastille | rioting revolutionaries killed guards and warden at this jail |
| The Great Fear | first phase of French Revolution; houses burnt, civilians murdered |
| Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyes | first leader of French Revolution |
| Liberty, Equality, Fraternity | official slogan of French Revolution |
| guillotine | thousands of ordinary people were murdered with this machine; the king and queen, too |
| Jean-Paul Marat | wrote a revolutionary newspaper, demanding the death of anyone befriending the king |
| Maximilien Robespierre | leader of later phase of French Revolution |
| The Reign of Terror | Robespierre's method of managing the revolution by more executions |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | people were so tired and scared of revolutionary violence that they let him be absolute ruler |
| emperor | Napoleon declared himself to be this in 1804 |
| 1789 | French Revolution begins |
| 1799 | French Revolution ends |
| nothing good | what the French Revolution accomplished |
| Louisiana Territory | Napoleon sold this to Thomas Jefferson; it angered the British, and the French got cash |
| conquering all of Europe | Napoleon's goal |
| guerrilla warfare | how Spaniards resisted Napoleon |
| freedom of speech | although the French Revolution started by promising this, it eventually destroyed this |