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First Estate |
French Clergy |
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Second Estate |
French Nobility |
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Third Estate |
French Commoners |
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Bourgeoisie |
French Middle class, wanted change |
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Inequities among the Estates |
Caused the French Revolution, third esate payed all taxes, while the other estates nearly payed none |
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Enlightenment Ideas |
Another cause of the FR, ideas like liberty, reason, and equality |
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Economic Crisis |
Cause 3 of FR, France was in debt, along with crop failures |
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Failure of Leadership |
Final Cause of FR, Louis XVI was a poor ruler |
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Esates General |
Assembly of representatives from each Estate |
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National Assembly |
Third Estate delegates that passed laws in the name of French people |
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Tennis Court Oath |
National Assembly pledged to stay in the tennis court until there was a new Constitution |
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Storming of the Bastille |
Event in which a mob went into a fortress and got weapons to defend themselves from the king |
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The Great Fear |
Time in France where rebellions and violence spread, and the French armed themselves |
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Corsica |
Napoleon's original home |
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Abbe Sieyes |
Man who gave Napoleon advice |
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Coup d'etat |
Napoleon's seizure of power |
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Napoleonic Reforms |
Examples of this term: Tax system, Cocordat, Code Napoleon, lycees |
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Concordat |
Agreement in which government appoints bishops, and the bishops appoint priests |
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Lycees |
Government-run public schools |
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Speed |
A significant advantage in Napoleon's army (along with manuverability) |
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Continental System |
Blockade on Britain, resulted in a stronger retaliating British blockade against France |
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Peninsular War |
Portugal ignored Continental system, France marched through Spain, Spanish used guerilla tactics to take out French army |
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Goya |
Man who painted pictures depicting images from the Peninsular War |
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Invasion of Russia |
Russia doesn't follow Continental System, France goes to Russia, Russians used scorched-earth policy to disable French Army from re-supplying itself |
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The Battle of Lepzig |
Battle in which Britain, Russia, Prussia, and Austria notice Napoleon's costly mistakes, and defeat him |
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Elba |
After losing the Battle of Lepzig, Napoleon is banished here |
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Waterloo |
Battle Napoleon fights against the British, and loses |
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St. Helena |
Iskand Napoleon is banished to where he dies. The End |
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Congress of Vienna |
Meeting consisting of representatives from all countries in Europe, hoping to achieve peace and stability |
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Austria's representative during Congress of Vienna |
Prince Metternich |
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France's representative during Congress of Vienna |
Talleyrand |
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Balance of Power, Legitimacy, Concert of Europe |
Principles of Congress of Vienna |
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Declaration of Rights of Man |
National Assembly's statement, reflecting on Enlightenment ideas, saying everyone is equal |
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Legislative Assembly |
Group that had the power to make laws |
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Emigres |
Nobles and others who fled France during Peasant uprisings, wanted to restore Old Regime |
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Sans-Culottes |
Radical French group that wanted complete change, consisted of wage-earners/shop keepers |
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Guillotine |
Machine French used to behead their king |
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Maximillen Robespierre |
Ruler who's rule was known as the Reign of Terror |
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Committee of Public Safety |
Group that decided which members of France were enemies of the republic |
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