chap 19 Flashcards
Estates General
The representative body of all three estates. It was representative of the estates prior to the French Revolution and was called into session in 1789, the first time since 1614.
Estates
The three legal legal classes, or orders of France’s legal inhabitants: the clergy, the nobility, and everybody else.
National Assembly
The first French Revolutionary legislature. It was in session from 1789 to 1791 and included delegates from mostly the third estate, but also some delegates from the first and second estates.
Great fear
The fear of noble against peasant uprisings that ceased the french Countryside and led to further revolt.
Jacobin Club
A political party in revolutionary France whose members were well-educated radical republicans.
Second Revolution
The second phase of the French Revolution that lasted from 1792 to 1795. It was during this time that the fall of the French monarchy resulted in quick, major changes in politics.
Girondists
A moderate group that fought for control of the French National Convention 1793
The Mountain
Led by Robespierre, the French National convention’s radical faction which seized power in 1793.
Sans-Culottes
The working poor of Paris. They were given this name because working poor men of Paris wore trousers instead of the knee breeches of the aristocracy and middle-class. They were joined by the Mountain to create a social uprising.
Reign Of Terror
The period of time from 1793 to 1794 in which Robespierre tried and executed thousands whom he deemed as guilty of treason. It was from this movement that a new revolutionary culture was imposed in France.
Thermidorian Reaction
A reaction to the violence of the Reign Of Terror in 1794, resulting in the execution of Robespierre and the loosening of economic controls.
Napoleonic Code
French civil code promulgated in 1804 that reasserted the 1789 principles of equality of all male citizens before the law and the absolute security of wealth and private property, as well as restricting rights afforded to women by the previous revolutionary laws
Grand Empire
The empire over Napoleon and his allies ruled, encompassing virtually all of Europe except Great Britain and Russia.
Continental System
A blockade imposed by Napoleon to halt all trade between continental Europe and Great Britain, thereby weakening the British economy and military.
