Modern European History Test 4
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 King Louis XVI | Not popular an spent a lot of money, executed |
| Queen Marie Antoinette | Austrian woman, married Louis XVI, executed |
| Estates General | Old government of France |
| First estate | Church, clergy, owned 10% of land, paid 2% taxes |
| Second Estate | nobility |
| Third Estate | everybody else... very bad, lots of taxes |
| Jacques Necker | French guy who raised taxes for the commoners |
| Abbe Sieyes | published pamphlet "What is the 3rd Estate?" |
| National Assembly | Did the Tennis Court Oath., A French congress established by representatives of the third Estate |
| Tennis Court Oath | Vow not to leave the tennis court at Versailles until the King and the Church listened to the 3rd Estate's demands |
| Bastille | Prison in Paris where the revolutionaries broke in and stole ammunition to fight French army. Called Storming of the Bastille. |
| July 14, 1789 | date that the Bastille was attacked |
| Tricolor | revolutionary flag. Red and blue = Paris. White = royalty |
| "Great Fear" | commoners destroy the financial debt |
| Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen | John Locke's ideals incorporated into a document for the French revolutionaries |
| Olympe de Gouges | orchestrates women's march on Versailles |
| Flight to Varennes | the Royals tried to flee to Austria and were found in this small town in East France and taken prisoner. |
| Tuileries | Where Marie Antoinette lived with the children |
| Declaration of Pillnitz | Leopold II, Marie's brother |
| Brunswick Manifesto | Prussia threatens France for not killing the Royals |
| The Convention | The new congress. 2 sides: Radical and Less radical |
| Self-Denying Ordinance | Established by Robespierre so he could have all power. Said that if you were previously in the National Assembly, you couldn't serve again. |
| Liberte! Egalite! Fraternite!!! | The battle cry for Freedom! Freedom! Equality! Brotherhood! |
| Jean-Paul Marat | newspaper guy in Paris, who was very radical and wanted a bunch of executions |
| Guillotine | killing device of choice |
| Girondin | Moderate people in France that want change |
| Georges Danton | Loud person that inspires people to fight for their country |
| Jacobin Club | Radical group of Congress, led by Robespierre |
| Robespierre | Spokesperson for 3rd Estate. Power-hungry, crazy member of Public Safety. Had a lot of people killed. |
| September Massacres | Armies approach France and kill tons of priests and people who opposed the Revolution |
| Battle of Valmy | Where the Revolutionaries defeat Duke of Brunswick (Austria and Prussia) and stop them from reaching Paris |
| Committee of Public Safety | 12 member, executive committee led by Robespierre and Jacobins |
| Reign of Terror | Eliminated non radicals, getting rid of opponents of Revolution |
| De-Christianization | Elimination of Religion in France. Got rid of all religious statues and Catholic connections. Making a new calendar with no Sundays. |
| Jacques Hebert | Orchestrated the De-Christianization |
| Cult of the Supreme Being | Festival of the Faith of France. On a papier-mache mountain |
| Thermidorian Reaction | Robespierre executed, Moderates released from prison, Jacobins and sans disbanded, old order restored. |
| The Directory | The executives and the Government, New Government after the Jacobins |
| House of the Ancients | 250 people that approved the laws |
| House of the 500 | 500 people that made the laws |
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