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Unit 8 Vocab Flashcards

1
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The system of feudalism lefts over from the Middle Ages

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Old Regine

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2
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Large social classes

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Estate

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3
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King in 1774

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Louis XVI

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4
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Louis wife; part of royal family of Austria

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Marie Antoinette

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5
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An assembly of representatives from all three estates

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Estates General

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6
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The third estate that passed laws and reforms in the name of the french people

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National Assembly

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7
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Pledge to not leave the tennis court until there was a new constitution written

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Tennis Court Oath

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8
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A wave of senseless panic

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Great Fear

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9
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A statement of revolutionary ideas

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Declaration of the rights of man

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10
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Assembly that had the power to create laws and approve or prevent war the king declared on other nations

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Legislative assembly

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11
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Nobles and others who had fled France during the peasant uprising

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Emigres

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12
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Wage earners and shop owners that wanted more say in the government

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Sans culottes

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13
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Machine used to behead people

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Guillotine

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14
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Ruler that set out to build a republic of virtue

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Maximilien Ronespierre

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15
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Committee establish to be enemies of the republic

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Committee of public safety

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16
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Period in France during Robespierre’s ruling

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Reign of terror

17
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Powerful dictator in France in the 18th century

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Napoleon Bonaparte

18
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Blow of state

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Coup d’ etat

19
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Vote of the people

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Plebiscite

20
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Government run schools

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Lycee

21
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Agreement

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Concordat

22
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Napoleons system of laws

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Napoleonic codee

23
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Napoleons only major loss

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Battle of trafalgar

24
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A forcible closing of ports

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Blockade

25
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Policy to prevent all trade between great Britain and all other European nations

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Continental system

26
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Spanish peasant fighters

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Guerrilla

27
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War between France and Spain

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Peninsular war

28
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Burning grain fields and slaughtering livestock so as to leave nothing that the enemy could eat

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Scorched earth policy

29
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Village in Belgium

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Waterloo

30
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Napoleons last bid of power

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Hundred days

31
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Series of meetings in Vienna

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Congress of Vienna

32
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Foreign minister of Austria

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Klemens von Metternich

33
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When no Courtney is a threat to the others

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Balance of power

34
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Agreeing that as many as possible of the rulers who Napoleon had driven fro, their thrones should be restored power

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Legitimacy

35
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Agreement to bond Austria and Prussia together

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Holy Alliance

36
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Alliance assuring that the nations would help one another if any revolutions broke out

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Concert of Europe

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