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Napoleanic code

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Embodied enlightenment principles such as the equality of all citizens, religious toleration, and the abolition of feudalism

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Robespierre

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Lawyer and politician, wanted to abolish slavery and promoted religious toleration

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Marquis de Lafayette

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“Hero of two worlds” fought alongside George Washington in the American revolution

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Continental system

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Closed European ports to British goods

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Ancien régime

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Old order

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Bourgeoisie

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The middle class

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Guerrilla warfare

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Hit-and-run raids

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Guillotine

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Device used during the reign of terror to execute thousands by beheading

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Olympe de gouges

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Female journalist who demanded equal rights for women

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Plebiscite

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Popular vote by ballot

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What estates make up the estates general

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Representatives of the three estates

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Jacques Neckar, and Louis 16

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A financial expert and advisor. Urged Louis 16 to reduce court spending and was dismissed after he proposed taxing the first and second estates

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What resulted from the estates general

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Tension between the estates, third estate takes the Tennis Court Oath

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Declaration of the rights of man and the citizen

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All men were born and remain free and equal in rights. They enjoy natural rights to liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression

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National Assembly

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Representatives from the third estate

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What kind of government was the national convention

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Republic

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Reign of terror

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1793-1794 suspected persons would be executed often by the guillotine

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Directory phase of the revolution

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A period of reaction against extremism

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Jacobins

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A revolutionary political club, mostly middle-class lawyers or intellectuals

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Girondins

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In the National Assembly and wanted to end monarchy

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Republic of virtue

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Robespierre believed France could achieve a “republic of virtue” only through the use of terror, “criminals lose their heads”

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What countries did Napoleon conquer

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Most of northern Italy, forced Spain to return Louisiana territory

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What battle tactics did the Russians use to defeat Napoleon

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The retreated east and burned villages. Scorched earth policy left French hungry and cold. Russian winter

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Congress of Vienna

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Assembly of European leaders that met after the napoleonic era to piece Europe back together

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Principal of legitamicy

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Principal by which monarchies that had been unseated by the French Revolution or Napoleon were restored

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Tennis court oath

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Delegates from third estate gathered on tennis court and swore “never to separate and to meet wherever the circumstances might require until we have established a sound and just constitution”

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Why did the women march on Versailles

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They wanted the king to return to Paris

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Declaration of pilnitz

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King of Prussian and emperor of Austria issued the document in which the two monarchs threatened to intervene to protect the French monarchy.

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Who granted all male citizens the right to vote in 1790

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National Assembly put the church under state control

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What did Robespierre think is the only way to achieve republic of virtue

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Through the use of terror

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Under what authority did the reign of terror work

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Robespierre committee of public safety

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Consulate under Napoleon

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Overthrew the weak directory and set up a three-man governing board known as the consulate

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Where was Napoleon defeated

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Waterloo, Belgium

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Goals of the congress of Vienna

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They wanted to restore stability and order in Europe after years of war

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