Ch. 7 Vocab Modern World History
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 Old Regime | the social and political system of France; under this system, the people of France were divided into three large social classes, or estates |
| estate | one of the three social classes in France before the French Revolution |
| Louis XVI | husband of Marie Antoinette; bored with the affairs of the state and preferred doing physical activities instead; wanted to improve the lives of the common people, but failed to make decisions to make improvements |
| Marie Antoinette | wife of Louis XVI; pretty, but unpopular because of her spending and involvement in court affairs; spent hours playing cards |
| Estates-General | an assembly of representatives from all three of the estates, or social classes, in Frances |
| National Assembly | a French congress established by representatives of the Third Estate on June 17, 1789, to enact laws and reforms in the name of the French people |
| Tennis Court Oath | a pledge made by the members of France's National Assembly in 1789, in which they vowed to continue meeting until they had drawn up a new constitution |
| Great Fear | a wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille in 1789 |
| Declaration of the Rights of Man | statement of revolutionary ideas adopted by the National Assembly, stated that "men are born and remain free and equal rights" |
| Legislative Assembly | a French congree with the power to create laws and approve declarations of war, established by the Constitution of 1791 |
| Emigres | a person who leaves his native country for political reasons, like the nobles and others who fled France during the peasant uprisings of the French Revolution |
| sans-culottes | in the French Revolution, a radical roup made up of Parisian wage-earners and small shopkeepers who wanted a greater voice in government, lower prices, and an end to food shortages |
| Jacobins | a radical political organization |
| guillotine | a machine for beheading people, used as a means of execution during the French Revolution |
| First Coalition | the first major concerted effort of multiple European powers to contain Revolutionary France (1793-1797) |
| Committee of Public Safety | committee whose task was to protect the Revolution from its enemies |
| Reign of Terror | the period (1793-1794) when Maximilien Robespierre ruled France nearly as a dictator and thousands of political figures and ordinary citizens were executed |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | led a French army against the forces of Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia; led expedition to Egypt |
| coup d'etat | a sudden seizure of political power in a nation |
| plebiscite | a direct voe in which a country's people have the opportunity to approve of reject a proposal |
| lycee | a government-run public school in France |
| concordat | a formal agreement - especially one between the pope and a government dealing with the control of Church affairs |
| Napoleonic Code | a comprehensive and uniform system of laws established for France by Napoleon |
| Louisana Territory | . |
| Battle of Trafalgar | an 1805 naval battle in which Napoleon's forces were defeated by a British fleet |
| Maximilien Robespierre | he set out to build a French "republic of virtue"; his rule became known as the Reign of Terror |
| blockade | the use of troops or ships to prevent commercial traffic from entering and leaving a city or region |
| Continental System | Napoleon's policy of preventing trade between Great Britain and continental Europe; intended to destroy Great Britian's economy |
| War of 1812 | two year war between... |
| guerrilla | a member of a loosely organized fighing force that makes surprise atacks on enemy troops occuying his or her country |
| Peninsular War | a conflict (1808-1813) in which Spanish rebels, with the aid of British forces, fought to drive out Napoleon's French troops |
| scorched-earth policy | the practice of burning crops and killing livestock during wartime so that the enemy cannot live off the land |
| Waterloo | the site of Napoleon's defeat by British and Prussian armies in 1815, which ended his last bid for power |
| Hundred Days | brief period during 1815 when Napoleon made his last bid for power, deposing the French king and queen and again becoming emperor of France |
| Congress of Vienna | a series of meetings in 1814-1815 during which he European leaders sought to establish long-lasting peace and security after the defeat of Napoleon |
| balance of power | a political situation in which no one nation is powerful enough to pose a threat to others |
| legitimacy | the hereditary right of a monarch to rule |
| Holy Alliance | a league of European nations formed by the leaders of Russia, Austria, and Prussia after the Congress of Vienna |
| Concert of Europe | a series of alliances that ensured the European nations would help one another if any revolutions broke out |
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