Terms from History
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| First Estate | The Clergy
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| Third Estate | Everybody else who wasn't in the Third Estate; Commoners
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| Bastille | A stone prison had become a hated symbol of oppression to the Parisians
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| Napoleon | was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars.
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| Napoleonic Code | Reflected some of the ideals of the Enlightenment and the Revolution.
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| Declaration of the Rights of Man | Stated that the government belonged to the people as a whole
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| Women's march on Versailles | On October 5, 1789, Parisian women rallied to protest the shortage of bread and the soaring food prices
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| Suffrage | The right to vote
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| Reign of Terror | A brutal program to silence critics of the government
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| Grand Army | An Army made up of gathered troops from France and the conquered countries.
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| Hundred Days | marked the period between Napoleon's return from exile on the island of Elba to Paris on 20 March 1815
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| Bourgeoisie (Second Estate) | Consisted of merchants, bankers, lawyers, doctors, intellectuals and government bureaucrats.
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| Copernicus | Created the heliocentric theory, meaning the sun was the center of the universe and the Earth and all the other planets revolve around the sun.
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| Bill of Rights | the first ten amendments
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| Checks and Balances | prevented any other branch from gaining too much power
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| Separation of Powers | an act of vesting the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of government in separate bodies.
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| Stamp Act | an act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents.
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| Montesquieu | Wrote the Spirit of the laws and urged separation of powers in the book
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| Rousseau | Argued that arts and sciences corrupted people's natural goodness.
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| Locke | Believed that a person was not born good or evil, rather they are shaped by their experiences
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| Hobbes | Wrote the book Leviathan
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