Chapter 7 Terms & Names

Question 0

Estates

Answer 0

Another word for the classes France was divided into under the old regime.

Question 1

Old Regime

Answer 1

The social and political system of France where people were divided into three social classes

Question 2

Louis XVI

Answer 2

King of France

Question 3

Marie Antoinette

Answer 3

Queen of Louis XVI

Question 4

Estates-General

Answer 4

A meeting of representatives of all three estates to approve Louis XVI’s new tax

Question 5

National Assembly

Answer 5

French congress established by representatives of the third estate to pass laws and reforms in the name of the French People

Question 6

Tennis Court Oath

Answer 6

Pledge taken by third estate delegates to stay in the indoor tennis court until a new constitution had been drawn up

Question 7

Great Fear

Answer 7

A wave of senseless panic caused by rumors that nobles were out to get them

Question 8

Legislative Assembly

Answer 8

New legislative body under the new constitutional monarchy in France.

Created laws and approved declaration of war

Question 9

Émigrés

Answer 9

Nobles and others who had fled France that hoped to undo the revolution and restore the old regime

Question 10

Sans-culottes

Answer 10

(Those without knee breeches)

People who wanted the revolution to bring even greater change to France

Question 11

Jacobins

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Radical political organization. Most revolutionists w

Question 12

Jacobins

Answer 12

Radical political organization. Most revolutionists were a part if it.

Question 13

Guillotine

Answer 13

Machine that beheads

Question 14

Robespierre

Answer 14

A jacobin leader hat slowly gained power and virtually became a dictator

Question 15

Reign of Terror

Answer 15

Period of Robespierre’s rule as leader of the committee of public safety (virtually dictator)

Question 16

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Question 17

Coup d’état

Answer 17

Blow to the state, sudden seizure

Question 18

Plebiscite

Answer 18

Vote of the people

Question 19

Lycées

Answer 19

Government run public schools

Question 20

Napoleonic Ckde

Answer 20

Comprehensive system of laws by Napoleon

Question 21

Battle if Trafalgar

Answer 21

The One major battle Napoleon lost

Question 22

Blockade

Answer 22

Forcible closing of ports to prevent trade

Question 23

Continental system

Answer 23

Napoleons blockade named because he wanted to make continental Europe self sufficient

Question 24

Guerrillas

Answer 24

Bands of Spanish peasant fighters. Small fights and hiding

Question 25

Peninsular War

Answer 25

War in which Napoleon lost about 300,000 men. Spain lies in Iberian peninsula

Question 26

Scorched earth policy

Answer 26

Burning fields and slaughtering animals to leave nothing for the enemy to eat

Question 27

Waterloo

Answer 27

Second Battle of Napoleon to keep power

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Hundred days

Answer 28

Napoleons last bid for power

Question 29

Congress of Vienna

Answer 29

Series if meetings in Vienna to create a collective security and stability for the entire continent of Europe

Question 30

Klemens Von Metrernich

Answer 30

Most influential representatives of the 5 great powers. Foreign minister of Austria

Question 31

Balance of power

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Question 32

Legitimacy

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Question 33

Holy Alliance

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Question 34

Concert of Europe

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