Unit 10 Flashcards

1
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“After me, the flood.” Lost the Seven Years’ War

A

Louis XV

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2
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French monarch during French Revolution; he was guillotined in 1794

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Louis XVI

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3
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the negative difference between what a nation accumulates in tax revenue and what it spends in any given year

A

annual deficit

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4
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total accumulated deficits

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national debt

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5
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condition under which you pay your creditors a reduced amount or you pay them nothing at all; results in ruined credit

A

bankruptcy

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6
Q

the concept that political power is derived from the people

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popular sovereignty

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7
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states that people enter into a contract with those who govern them when they elect them and that they may REVOLT if their rights are not upheld

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social contract theory

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8
Q

outlined social contract theory in Two Treatises on Government

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John Locke

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9
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Spirit of the Laws; argued for separation of powers

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Baron de Montesquieu

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10
Q

well-educated middle class

A

bourgeoisie

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11
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term for pre-revolutionary France

A

ancien regime

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12
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corporate body comprised of the clergy

A

1st Estate

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13
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corporate body composed of the nobility

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2nd Estate

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14
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corporate body composing 97% of French population

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3rd Estate

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15
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giving 10% of income to Church

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tithe

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16
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tax on salt

A

gabelle

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17
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body comprised of three French estates

A

Estates General

18
Q

“notebooks” of complaints brought by delegates to Estates General

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cahiers de doleances

19
Q

said nobility was tiny and overprivileged and Third Estate was truly representative of French people

A

What is the Third Estate?

20
Q

said National Assembly would not disband until they had written a constitution

A

Oath of the Tennis Court

21
Q

prison stormed by Parisians to gain weapons

A

Bastille

22
Q

A general fear among the peasants that the aristocracy was going to starve them out after events in Paris

A

Great Fear

23
Q

passed by the National Assembly; promoted equality before the law, representative govt, individual freedoms

A

Declaration of the Rights of Man

24
Q

paper money created by the National Assembly

A

assignats

25
Q

wrote Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790); father of modern conservatism

A

Edmund Burke

26
Q

pamphlet that criticized the French Revolution as too radical

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Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

27
Q

wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Man and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

A

Mary Wollstonecraft

28
Q

more radical members of the Jacobin Club

A

Mountain

29
Q

more moderate members of the Jacobin Club

A

Girondists

30
Q

political club that supported the Revolution

A

Jacobins

31
Q

created by the Mountain faction to radicalize the Revolution

A

Committee of Public Safety

32
Q

radical, left-wing members of the lower-class

A

san-culottes

33
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leader of the Mountain faction of Jacobins; later guillotined

A

Robespierre

34
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dictatorial five man council that ruled from 1797 until 1799

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Directory

35
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agreement between Napoleon and Catholic Church that re-instated Catholicism in France

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Concordat of 1801

36
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Napoleon’s blockade of European ports; the purpose was to cut the British off from European trade

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continental system

37
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Napoleon’s last-ditched effort to re-take France in spring 1815

A

Hundred days

38
Q

final defeat of Napoleon’s forces in Belgium by the Quadruple Alliance

A

Waterloo

39
Q

French monarchy

A

Bourbons

40
Q

battle in which Britain’s navy crushed Napoleon’s forces and prevented an invasion of Britain

A

Trafalgar

41
Q

built Versailles and lost money for France in the War of Spanish Succession (1713)

A

Louis XIV