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French Revo. Flashcards

1
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Who is Montesquieu?

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thought of separation of powers

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2
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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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4
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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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6
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Diderot?

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encyclopedia

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7
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Huguenots?

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persecuted

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8
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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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9
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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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11
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Govenor de launay?

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Governor of the Bastille

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12
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Napoleon Bonaparte?

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found the rosetta stone

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13
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Robespierre

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leader of the committee of public safety

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14
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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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16
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What was the time of Robespierre called?

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Reign of Terror

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17
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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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23
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What is the slogan of the sans culottes?

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liberty, equality, fraternity

24
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Name of newspaper and who made it?

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Jean paul-marat && The Friend of the People

25
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What is paying a toll for using the Lords bakeoven and such?

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Banalities

26
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What are indulgences?

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Pardon for sins

27
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What is the old regime?

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The french political and social system in years before 1789

28
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What is bourgeoisie?

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the middle class that had money and education, don’t have prestige or influences like noble birth

29
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What are emigres?

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nobles that fled to other parts of Europe

30
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Describe the 1st estate

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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

31
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What is the salt tax called ?

A

gabelle

32
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What is the letter of arrest called?

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Lettre de cachet

33
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What is the labour tax called?

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Corvee

34
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What is the income tax called?

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Vingtiemes

35
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What is the name of the luxury palace?

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Palace of Versailles

36
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What is openly practicing religions called?

A

Edict of Nantes

37
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What is excommunication?

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Being banned

38
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How much of peasants income goes to taxes?

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70%

39
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What is the church tax?

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Tithe

40
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What are the complaints called?

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Cahier

41
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Name 10 national assembly reforms

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  • 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
42
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What is the land tax?

A

taille

43
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what are the legal courts called?

A

parlements

44
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what is the appeal court called?

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court of cassation

45
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How does someone vote?

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  • male

- pay 3 days wage

46
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how does someone run for legislative assembly?

A
  • male

- pay 10 days wage

47
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where does the sans culottes get their guns from?

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Invalides

48
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what are feudal records called?

A

terriers

49
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what was the written constitution from the tennis courts?

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declaration of the rights of man

50
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what did they replace 35 provinces with?

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83 departments

51
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What begins to become the new currency?

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assignats

52
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who collects the kinds taxes?

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farmers general

53
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How many years could the king block a passage of the law?

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veto- 4 years

54
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What was the Warning note that austria and prussia sent the national assembly warning them?

A

declaration of Pillnitz

55
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what is the law of self denying ordinance?

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