Ch. 17 Flashcards
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Popular sovereignty
Authority derived from the people rather than from god or tradition
classes called estates or the orders of France
First estate consisted of the clergy
Second estate consisted of the nobility
Third estate consisted of everyone else
Bourgeoisie
Elite of wealth commoners who were merchants, manufacturers, and professionals
A body of deputies from the 3 estates or orders
The estates general
Tennis court oath
They agreed not to separate until they had given france a constitution
Bastille
July 14, 1789, a huge fortified prison that symbolized royal authority
Great fear
A period of panic and riot by rural peasants amid rumors “aristocratic conspiracy” to overthrow the third estate.
Declaration of the rights of man and citizen
Men are born and remain free and equal in rights
Political clubs French devotely radical republican left wing group
Jacobin
The slogans and values that will define the revolution
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
Marat was assassinated by Charlotte Corday, a Girondin sympathizer convent agreed to establish
Revolutionary armies, committee of public safety
Between September 5, 1793 and july 27, 1794, called
Reign of terror
French enlightenment thinkers believed if they could just get rid of ________ humanity would enter a new golden age
Religion, monarchy, and inequality
Replaces the catholic church
Cult of reason, cult of supreme being
Fearing for the safety of its members, in july 1794 the convention ended the terror by arresting
Robespierre and his followers
Dies with Robespierre, France will enter a period of uncertainty
Fear of another terror or a return to the oppressive monarchy that preceded it
Next the directory sen Napoleon and an army to Egypt in 1798
The hopes of cutting off the British Trade Routes to India
2nd century BC artifact will unlock the lost Ancient Egyptian culture
Rosetta Stone
The consulate Napoleon became _______ a title revived from the ancient Roman republic
First consul
Napoleon created an administrative bureaucracy based on the ancient roman
Patron client relationship
The civil code of 1804
It did not allow privileges based on birth (such as nobility). It allowed freedom of religion, equal protection under law for all males
Napoleons military innovations
Creation of the Grande Armee
The corps
Artillery
Spy network
Regarded as Napoleons greatest victory
Austerlitz
Annexing territories, Napoleon
Abolished serfdom, eliminated seigneurial dues, introduce a napoleonic code, suppressed monasteries, subordinated church to state, and extended civil rights to jews
