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Chapter 18 Flashcards

1
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First estate

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Clergy

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Second estate

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Titled nobility of French society

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3
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Third estate

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Most diverse of all social classes

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4
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Hit and run warfare

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Guerrilla warfare

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5
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to incorporate (a country or other territory) within the domain of a state

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Annex

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Bourgeoisie

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Third, middle class

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Military tactic when you destroy everything in your path when you are retreating so that the people that you are retreating from can’t get to you

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Scorched earth policy

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8
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when a government spends more than it takes in

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Deficit spending

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9
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weak and indecisive

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Louis XVI

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10
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financial expert and advisor to King Louis XVI

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Jacques Necker

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11
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a popular vote by ballot

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Plebiscite

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12
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a legislative body consisting of representatives of the three French estates

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estates general

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13
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notebooks that listed the grievance of each estate

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Cahiers

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14
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A small, dissenting group within a larger one

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Faction

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15
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Step down from power

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Abdicate

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16
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Leader of the National Guard

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Marquis de Lafayette

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17
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Executed for publicly expressing her views and demanding equal rights 4 women

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Olymphe de Gouges

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18
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Reported to have said “Let them eat cake!”

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Marie Antoinette

19
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People who fled France and the revolutionary forces

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Émigrés

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The working class

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Sans-Culottes

21
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a government run by elected representatives

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Republic

22
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radicals

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Jacobins

23
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the right to vote

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Suffrage

24
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Conforming to the law or rulers

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Legitimacy

25
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The Incoruptable, leader of the committee of public safety

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Robespierre

26
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Primary tool in the Reign of terror, the National razor

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Guillotine

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Loyalty and devotion to a nation

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Nationalism

28
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A city and port on the Mediterranean coast of southern France

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Marseilles

29
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He was a consul and emperor, beginning of fall of Napoleon

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Invading Russia in 1812

30
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denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious and spiritual basis

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Secular

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In the post-Napoleonic era, the vague consensus among the European monarchies favouring preservation of the territorial and political status quo.

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Concert of Europe

32
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symbol of abuse by the absolute monarchy

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Bstille

33
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Working class

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Third estate

34
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new code of law that embodied Enlightenment principles but valued order and authority over the rights of the individuals.

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Napoleonic code

35
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to form a French Constitution

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Tennis Court Oath

36
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Modeled after the American Constitution, states that all men are “born and remain free and equal in rights”

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Declaration of the Rights of Man

37
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Set up a limited monarchy in place of absolutism

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Constitution of 1791

38
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The chief goals of ______________________________ were to preserve peace through the balance of power and to restore and protect the system of the monarchy.

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Congress of Vienna

39
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National assembly’s debt

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~7.9bn

40
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Those who supported the Revolution

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Revolutionaries

41
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the goal of the ________________________________ is to prepared for all out war

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Mass levy of 1793

42
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puts King Louis XVI on trial

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Radical convention

43
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Causes of the Revolution

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Absolute Monarchy
Social injustice
Economic issues

44
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List some of the ways that the French and American Revolution were similar. How were they different?

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all had many causes, but opposition to a monarch strengthened the desire to revolt. All were attempts to topple the unchecked power of monarchy, America was a colony revolting against its monarch in another part of the world, whereas the French/English revolutions was conducted inside the country. Varying levels of violence, fighting and social unrest

Semester 2 History (10 decks)

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