The French Revolution
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Louis XVI | ruled as King of France from 1774 until 1791. Spent a lot of money and kept france in debt for years |
| Marie Antoinette | Queen of France married to Louis XVI |
| Estates General | an assemably of representatives from all three of the estates, or social classes, in France |
| Tennis Court Oath | A pledge made by the Nation Assembly to make a constitution before leaving a tennis court |
| Declaration of Rights of Man | "Men are born and remain free and equal in rights" |
| National Assembly | Assembly of the third estate |
| Great Fear | tumors spread among the peasants that nobles had hired spies and outlaws |
| Maximillian Robespeirre | Jacobin leader, wanted to wipe out every trace of France's past. |
| Storming of the Bastille | July 14, mob tearing down this building stone by stone getting guns and powder in the process |
| sans-culottes | Parisian workers who believed that regular trousers instead of fancy knee-length pants |
| Jacobins | Most of the people involved in the governmental changes and associated with Robespierre |
| Girondists | loosely-affiliated individuals rather than an organised political party |
| September Massacre | When the people of paris stormed the prisons and excecuted all of the prisoners |
| Jean Paul Marat | A radical journalist and politician from the French Revolution. |
| guillotine | A machine for beheading people, used as a means of execution during the French Revolution |
| Reign of Terror | A time period in which a committee of public safety sentenced many people to death |
| Council on Public Safety | Task was to protect the Revolution from its enemies |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | General, and later Emperor of the French Empire |
| the Directory | a body of five Directors that held executive power in France. The regime of france from 1795-1799 |
| coup d'etat | Sudden seizure of power from Napolean meaning "blow the state" |
| lycée | A government-run public school in France |
| Napoleonic Code | A comprehensive system of laws created by Napoleon |
| Battle of Trafalgar | Napoleon lost the major battle in the coast of Spain. |
| Louisiana Purchase | Napoleon sold this to America because he was desperate for money for a navy |
| Continental System | The foreign policy of Napoleon in his struggle against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Invasion of Russia | Napoleon's failed attempt to capture moscow. |
| Elba | This is the first island that Napoleon was exiled |
| Waterloo | A village in Belgium where Napoleon fought his last battle |
| St. Helena | Island in the South Atlantic. |
| Congress of Vienna | a conference of ambassadors of European states |
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