French Revo. Flashcards

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Who is Montesquieu?

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thought of separation of powers

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Smith?

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laissez faire

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3
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Locke?

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life liberty property

government by popular consent

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Voltaire?

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free speech

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5
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Rousseau?

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direct democracy

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Diderot?

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encyclopedia

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Huguenots?

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persecuted

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Charles Talleyrand?

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First priest to suggest church land be taken away and sold to peasants

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Duc de Noailles?

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First person to refuse taxes

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10
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San Culottes?

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Revolutionary soldiers

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Govenor de launay?

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Governor of the Bastille

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Napoleon Bonaparte?

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found the rosetta stone

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Robespierre

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leader of the committee of public safety

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La Fayette?

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credited with writing the Declaration of the Rights of man

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15
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Jacobins && Girondins?

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2 political clubs

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What was the time of Robespierre called?

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Reign of Terror

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What is the name of the emergency 12 men who rule?

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Committee of public safety

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18
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What is the new army for the national assembly?

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National Guard

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19
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Geoffrin?

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Hosted gatherings for philosophes

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20
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Where did the royal family get captured?

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Varennes

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21
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Where was the royal family kept prisoner at?

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Tuileries

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22
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What is the name of the national anthem?

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Marseillaise

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What is the slogan of the sans culottes?

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liberty, equality, fraternity

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Name of newspaper and who made it?

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Jean paul-marat && The Friend of the People

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What is paying a toll for using the Lords bakeoven and such?
Banalities
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What are indulgences?
Pardon for sins
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What is the old regime?
The french political and social system in years before 1789
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What is bourgeoisie?
the middle class that had money and education, don't have prestige or influences like noble birth
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What are emigres?
nobles that fled to other parts of Europe
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Describe the 1st estate
Clergy Divided into 2 groups, Higher -> came from wealthy noble families, lived in luxury nobles Lower-> parish priests often lived in poverty, helped peasants in the fields
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What is the salt tax called ?
gabelle
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What is the letter of arrest called?
Lettre de cachet
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What is the labour tax called?
Corvee
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What is the income tax called?
Vingtiemes
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What is the name of the luxury palace?
Palace of Versailles
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What is openly practicing religions called?
Edict of Nantes
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What is excommunication?
Being banned
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How much of peasants income goes to taxes?
70%
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What is the church tax?
Tithe
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What are the complaints called?
Cahier
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Name 10 national assembly reforms
- Internal tariffs, octroi abolished - bishops and priests now elected, no more tithe - metric system introduced - abolished guilds, abolished lettre de catchet - removed Royal from signs of shops - law of maximum. Unions now legal - A written constitution adopted - church lands sold to raise money - 83 department to replace 35 provinces - freedom of worship
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What is the land tax?
taille
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what are the legal courts called?
parlements
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what is the appeal court called?
court of cassation
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How does someone vote?
- male | - pay 3 days wage
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how does someone run for legislative assembly?
- male | - pay 10 days wage
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where does the sans culottes get their guns from?
Invalides
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what are feudal records called?
terriers
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what was the written constitution from the tennis courts?
declaration of the rights of man
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what did they replace 35 provinces with?
83 departments
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What begins to become the new currency?
assignats
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who collects the kinds taxes?
farmers general
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How many years could the king block a passage of the law?
veto- 4 years
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What was the Warning note that austria and prussia sent the national assembly warning them?
declaration of Pillnitz
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what is the law of self denying ordinance?
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