chapter 21 french revolution KEY TERMS Flashcards

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estates

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the clergy, the nobility, and everyone else

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manorial rights

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privileges of lordship that dated back to medieval times

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desacralization

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the king was being stripped of the sacred aura of God’s anointed on earth and be reinvented as a degenerate

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Assembly of notables

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consisted mainly of important noblemen and high ranking clergy and demanded that control over all government spending be given to the provincial assemblies

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estates general

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look up

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national assembly

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consisted of the delegates of the third estate

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constitutional monarchy

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the National Assembly abolished the French nobility as a legal order and pushed forward with the creation

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second revolution

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the fall of the monarchy marked a rapid radicalization of the Revolution

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girondists

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one side of the Jacobin group named after a department i southwestern France that was home to several of their leaders

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the Mountain

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led by Robespierre and Georges Jacques Danton. Called cos its members sat at the uppermost benches on the left side of the assembly hall

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sansculottes

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laboring poor and petty traders, their interest were mainly economic

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Reign of Terror

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used revolutionary terror to solidify the home front; it was a political weapon directed impartially against all who might oppose the revolutionary government

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abolition of slavery

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February 4 1974 extended it to all French Territories

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Thermidorian reaction

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reaction to the despotism of the Reign of Terror

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grand empire

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Napoleon spread French empire in 1810 into 1. Belgium/Germany/northern Italy 2. Independent satellite kingdoms 3. independent but allied states of Austria, Prussia, and Russia

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Colbert created mercantilism; its goal

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build up nation’s supply of gold by exporting goods to other lands and earning gold from their sale