Revolutions Word Scramble
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estate | one of three social classes in France in the late 1700s |
Estates General | an assembly of representatives from all three social classes in France |
Old Regime | the social and political system of France in the 1770s |
Louis XVI | king of France in the 1770s and 1780s, known for his extravagant spending and being executed in the French Revolution |
Marie Antoinette | queen of France who spent so much money that she was called “Madame Deficit”; killed in French Revolution |
Tennis Court Oath | pledge by Third Estate delegates to meet until they created a new constitution |
National Assembly | first deliberate act of revolution by France’s Third Estate ; new law-making body that replaced Estates General |
Great Fear | wave of senseless panic that spread through the French country side after the Storming of the Bastille |
Maximilien Robespierre | The Jacobin leader who ruled over the Reign of Terror, in which thousands of French citizens were executed |
Reign of Terror | period from mid1793-1794 when Maximilien Robespierre ruled France nearly as a dictator and thousands of political figures and ordinary citizens were executed |
Napoleon Bonaparte | took over as Emperor of France after the French Revolution failed |
Napoleonic Code | a comprehensive and uniform system of laws established for France by Napoleon |
coup d’etat | violent overthrow of the state |
Battle of Trafalgar | an 1805 naval battle in which Napoleon’s forces were defeated by a British fleet under the command of Horatio Nelson |
Waterloo | Battle where Napoleon was finally defeated by British, Austrian and Prussian forces |
Congress of Vienna | series of meetings of European powers to ensure the security and stability of a new European order after Napoleon’s defeat |
Klemens von Metternich | The foreign minister of Austria who wanted to restore a balance of power in Europe |
Continental System | Napoleon’s blockade of Europe’s ports, which was intended to make continental Europe more self-sufficient |
Hundred Days | Napoleon’s last bid for power after breaking free from the island of Elba |
Plebiscite | vote of the people |
Toussaint L’Ouverture | leader of Haitian Independence – former slave. |
Simon Bolivar | Creole Venezuelan general Won independence for Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador by |
Jose de San Martin | Argentine Creole Won independence for Argentina, Chile and Peru |
Father Miguel Hidalgo | started Mexican independence movement, followers were mestizos and natives. |
Grito de Dolores | event where Hidalgo rang the church bell and called for a revolution |
Creole | people who were the children of peninsulares, but born in the colonies. |
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