| Term | Definition |
|---|
| balance of power | Equal power among nations |
| blockade | Forcible closing of parts |
| Concordat | A formal agreement especially one between the pope and a government, dealing with the control of Church affairs |
| Conservative | In the first half of the 19th century, a European--mainly wealthy landowners and nobles who wanted to preserve the traditional monoarchies of Europe |
| Coup d' etat | A suddent, bloodless seizure of political power in a nation |
| Creole | In Spanish colonial society, a colonist who was born in Latin America to Spanish parents |
| Guerolla | a memeber of a loosely oranized fighting force that makes surprise attacks on enemy troops occuyping his/her country |
| Junkers | Conservative members of Prussia's landowning class |
| Legitimacy | Hereditary right of a monarch to rule |
| Liberal | In the first half of the 19th century, a European--mainly middle-class busniess leaders merchants-who wanted to give more political power to elected parliaments |
| Lycees | French government-run public schools |
| Mercantilism | Economic policy in which nations seek an inscrease of power by selling more finished goods to their colonies than the raw materials they bought from them |
| mestizos | persons of mixed European and Indian ancestry |
| Mulattos | Persons of mixed European and African ancestry |
| Nation-State | a state having its own independent government |
| Nationalism | political system in which a person's greatest loyalty is to the nation, not the king |
| Peninsulare | people in Latin America born in Spain |
| Plebiscite | Direct vote of the people |
| Radicals | people who favored drastic change to extend democracy to all people |
| Realpolitik | politics of reality |
| Scorched-earth policy | practice of burining fields and killing livestock to keep advancing army from having food |
| Sans-culottes | Radical parisian wage earners who wanted greater voice in government |
| Emigre | nobles and others who left France during peasant uprisings and who hoped to come back to the old system |
| Declaration of the rights of man | document that guaranteed rights such as liberty and property to all |
| Legislative Assembly | Replaced National assembly took away most of kings power |
| Committee of Public Safety | Led by Robespierre enemies of the republic were executed |
| Reign of Terror | the period ot Robespierre rule period of killing and unrest |
| Robespierre | Revolutionary leader who tried to wipe out every trace of France's past monarchy and noblity |
| Guillotine | machine for beheading people |
| National razor | nickname for the guillotine |
| old regime | social and political system of france in the 1770s |
| Estates | three large social classes |
| first estate | made of of clegy |
| second estate | made up of rich nobles |
| third estate | made up of bourgeosie,urband lower class, and peants farmers |
| Louis XVI | king of France at the time of the French Revoluution |
| Marie Antoniette | Queen of France: wife of Louis XVI daughter of maria-theresa empress of Austria |
| The Bastille | French prision that became known as a symbol of the royal abuse of power |
| Estates-general | assebly of represntatives from all three estates |
| Tennis Court Oath | pledge made by members of France's National assembl in which they vowed to continue meeting until a new cnstrituion was dran up |
| Jacobins | Radical political organization |
| Jean-paul marat | radical revoutionary jornalist |
| Reign of Terror | period uring which Robespierre ruled |
| Toussaint LOuvertur | former slave who became a general and led rebel foreces against French to gain independence for Hispaniola, which became independent country of Haiti |
| Miguel Hidalgo | catholic priest , who led independe movvement in mexico |
| Simon Boliviar | venezuelan creoole known as the Liberator who helped drive spanish out of northen eastrn part of south america |
| jose de san martin | Revolutionary leader borin Argentna who freed chile and joined bolivar to free peru |
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