chapter 19 flash cards

Question 1

Estates General

Answer 1

Legislative body of pre revolutionary France made up of representatives of the three estates

Question 2

Estates

Answer 2

Three social classes of France; Clergy, Nobility, and everyone else

Question 3

National Assembly

Answer 3

First French revolutionary legislature, primarily from the third estate

Question 4

Great Fear

Answer 4

Revolts in French countryside in fear of noble reprisal

Question 5

Jacobin Club

Answer 5

Political club in revolutionary France made of well-educated radical republicans

Question 6

Second Revolution

Answer 6

Second phase of French revolution, where fall of monarchy introduced political radicalization

Question 7

Girondists

Answer 7

Moderate Jacobin group in French National Convention

Question 8

The Mountain

Answer 8

Robespierre’s Jacobin French National Convention’s Radical faction

Question 9

Sans-Culottes

Answer 9

Laboring poor of Paris

Question 10

Reign of Terror

Answer 10

1793-1794 when Robespierre’s Committee of Public Safety executed thousands suspected of treason

Question 11

Thermidorian Reaction

Answer 11

A reaction to the violence of the Reign of Terror in 1794, resulting in the execution of Robespierre and the loosening of economic controls.

Question 12

Napoleonic Code

Answer 12

A comprehensive and uniform system of laws established for France by Napoleon

Question 13

Grand Empire

Answer 13

The empire over which Napoleon and his allies ruled, encompassing virtually all of Europe except Great Britain and Russia.

Question 14

Continental System

Answer 14

Napoleon’s efforts to block foreign trade with England by forbidding Importation of British goods Into Europe.