| Term | Definition |
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| charles I | an english king in 1625 who was anti puritan. he took power away from the parliment and forced land owners to give loans to the government |
| puritans | a christian that disliked fancyness and was oppressed during the 1600s |
| petition of right | 4 laws, the king can only pass taxes and loans with the parliments concent, the king could not imprison any one without just cause troops cannot be housed privatly with out concent of the owner and lastly that the king cannot declare martial law without concent of the parlament |
| oliver cromwell | the puritan leader who started the revolution. during the uprising he was pro parlement but soon he took full power over the country and imposed military rule |
| the restoration | the period in which the house of stuart was returned to the thrown. |
| the Glorious revolution | when william and mary took the thrown from james II with the support of parlement |
| divine right of kings | a beliefe that monarchs get their power directly from god, and because of that, they should have total power |
| absolutism | croma style of ruling where one man claims absolute power |
| the english civil war | the forces of oliver cromwell and the puritans revolting over charles 1's religous intolerance and his sudden siesure of power |
| round heads | a knickname for the parliment's army so named because many of them had short close cropped hair |
| habeas corpus | a law instated that said that you cannot beheld without just cause and without a trial |
| charles II | the king who liberated england after the harsh rule of cromwell. he was nicknamed the merry monarch because of his love for partying and drinking |
| cavaliers | the royalist soldiers many of whome were calary |
| palace of versailles | the place where royalty enjoyed lavash plots of land and glorious palaces |
| luis XIV | a very powerfull monarch who commisioned the palace at versailles. however he took away alot of nobles ability to govern aand by doing so created parisidic nobles |
| declaration of the rights of man | the french constitution that garunteed freedom of speech, press, religion, and protected against unjust arrrest |
| royalist | a person who is in favor of royals |
| luis XVI | the king of france who's inexpirience caused the spark that ignited the revolution. he was eventualy beheaded by the revolutionaries. |
| the traditional order of estates | the third estate was the lower class, the second was the midle and 1st the top |
| parasitic nobles | nobles that had no real use who lived of the wealth of the king |
| reactionary | one who opposes reform or change |
| marie antionette | the queen who was concidered the simbol of excess to the third estate and who was eventualy execute. |
| the french revolution | a point in history when the peasants of france rose up and took power from the king luis xvi |
| jacbins | the far left political party in france they were extremely radicle and called for the deaths of many people |
| robespierre | one of the leaders of the revolution who was eventualy executed. he also started a very controversial news paper. he and his councle controlled france during the riegn of terror in which france sent all of itss enemies to jail |
| constitutional monarchy | a monarchy with shared power between the king and the parlement |
| emigres | nobels who fled france and hoped to save luis xvi |
| the directory | a group of five men who ruled france after the fall of the convention and lost power to napoleon |
| the tennis court oath | when the third estate was kicked out of the national assembly and moved into an indor tenniscourt. their they said they would not leave until they had a new constitution for france |
| unicameld legislature | an asembly that came from the new constitution made by the national assembly. this took power away from the king |
| rienge of terror | a period of time from 1793-1794, where the jacobins executed thousands of thier enemies to crush any resistance to thier power |
| bastille day | july 14 1789- a huge mob ausulted and destoyed the french prison- the bastille |
| girondists | moderates who felt the revolution had gone too far and needed to stop |
| louis xvi's execution | came in 1792 after being supsected of aiding the austirians and after trying to escape house arrest he was tryed and found guiloty of treason, and sent to the guilotine |
| coup d'etat | a quick siesure of power IE napoleon becoming emperer |
| napoleon | a french general who siezed power from the directory |
| napoleonic code | a new code of laws thatwas based on enlightened ideas, but still placed the state over the indivitdual and took away alot of power and rights from women |
| natinoalism | a strong love for ones nation |
| buffer state | nutral states made to keep france france in line |
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