french revolution vocabulary

Question 1

Political situation in which no one nation is powerful enough to pose a threat to others

Answer 1

BALANCE OF POWER

Question 2

Series of alliances among European nations in the 19th century, devised by Metternich to prevent the outbreak of revolutions.

Answer 2

CONCERT OF EUROPE

Question 3

formal agreement dealing with the control of church affairs

Answer 3

CONCORDAT

Question 4

series of meetings in 1814-15 during which the European leaders sought to establish long-lasting peace and security after the defeat of Napoleon

Answer 4

CONGRESS OF VIENNA

Question 5

Napoleon’s policy of preventing trade between Great Britain and continental Europe

Answer 5

CONTINENTAL SYSTEM

Question 6

sudden seizure of political power in a nation

Answer 6

COUP D’ETAT

Question 7

one of three social classes in Europe prior to the Revolution

Answer 7

ESTATE

Question 8

assembly of representatives from all three social classes in France

Answer 8

ESTATES-GENERAL

Question 9

member of a loosely organized fighting force that makes surprise attacks on enemy troops

Answer 9

GUERILLA

Question 10

machine for beheading people

Answer 10

GUILLOTINE

Question 11

french congress with the power to create laws and declare war

Answer 11

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY

Question 12

hereditary right of a monarch rule

Answer 12

LEGITIMACY

Question 13

King of France prior to the Revolution

Answer 13

LOUIS XVI

Question 14

state-run public school in France

Answer 14

LYCEE

Question 15

Queen of France prior to the Revolution

Answer 15

MARIE ANTOINETTE

Question 16

Austrian Prince that led the Congress of Vienna

Answer 16

METTERNICH

Question 17

Corsican military mind that rose to power in France in the early 1800s

Answer 17

NAPOLEON

Question 18

French congress established by representatives of the 3rd Estate in 1789 to enact laws and reforms in the name of the French people

Answer 18

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

Question 19

Political and social system that existed in France before the French Revolution

Answer 19

OLD REGIME

Question 20

Direct vote in which a country’s people have the opportunity to approve or reject a proposal

Answer 20

PLEBISCITE

Question 21

Nickname for the rule of Robespierre

Answer 21

REIGN OF TERROR

Question 22

Powerful Jacobin leader that was the leader of the Committee for Public Safety

Answer 22

ROBESPIERRE

Question 23

Practice of burning crops and killing livestock during wartime so that the enemy cannot live off the land

Answer 23

SCORCHED-EARTH POLICY

Question 24

Pledge made by the members of the National Assembly in which they vowed to continue meeting until they had drawn up a new constitution

Answer 24

TENNIS COURT OATH

Question 25

Village in Belgium in which Napoleon was defeated in 1815

Answer 25

WATERLOO