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Chapter 7 Flashcards

1
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Pros and cons about France

A

Good: great trade, most advanced country
Bad: bad harvests, high taxes, high prices

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2
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Old regime

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Social and political system divided people into 3 estates/classes

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3
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Clergy

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1% of population

10% of land

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4
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Nobles

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2% of pop

20% of land

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5
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Third estate

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97% of population

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6
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Who was in the 3rd estate?

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Bourgeoisie
Workers
Peasants

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7
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Middle class
High taxes
Wealthy

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Bourgeoisie

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8
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Low wages

Out of work often

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Workers

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9
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80%

Half of income in taxes

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Peasanrs

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10
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Where did the desire for change come from?

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Enlightenment and economic troubles

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11
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Inspired by new ideas

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Enlightenment

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12
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Demanded equality, liberty, and democracy

A

American revolution

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13
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Heavy taxes
Cost of living rising
Crops fail
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were spending too much

A

Economic troubles

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14
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Estate General

And where?

A

Assembly of reps from the estates

Versailles

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15
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Old rules of estate general and what’s changed?

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Each estate met separately and each got one vote

Now, all states meet together and each delegate gets one vote

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16
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1st deliberate act of the Revolution

A

National Assembly Formed

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17
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Tennis Court Oath

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Pledged to stay at indoor tennis court until they wrote a new constitution

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18
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Back in Paris

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Rumors flying—thought they needed to defend theirselves

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19
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Slogan of the French Revolution

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Liberty, equality, fraternity

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20
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Early reforms

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Took over church lands, declared Church officials and priest to be elected

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21
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What pissed off the peasants?

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They wanted the church to be independent

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22
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Radical on the Left

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Opposed monarchy

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23
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Moderates in the Middle

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Some changes

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24
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Conservatives on Right

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Limited monarchy, few changes

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25
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Émigrés

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Nobles that had fled but returned–wanted old regime back

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26
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Sans culottes

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Wanted bigger changes

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27
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What were Austria and Prussia afraid of?

What did they do about it?

A

Revolution spreading

They wanted Marie and Louis back on the throne and if not they would fight

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28
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Prussian troops surrounded Paris. What were their rules?

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They wouldn’t attack if the royal family wasn’t harmed so they threw the family in prison to keep them safe

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29
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Jacobins

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Radical political organization

30
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Who edited a radical newspaper?

A

Murat

31
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Who tried for treason and who put him to death?

A

Louis XVI

Guillotine

32
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Who changed the calendar and closed churches? Why?

A

Robespierre

He tried to build republic virtue

33
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Period of Robespierre

A

Head of committee of public safety

“Reign of Terror”

34
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Who demanded Robespierre’s arrest and execution?

A

National convention

35
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Who took over and made bicameral legislative, executive and directory?

A

Moderate leaders

36
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What did Napoleon do that was so scandalous at the Notre Dame Cathedral?

A

Crowned himself emperor of france

37
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What started war and where?

A

Planters demanded rights, so did the slaves, so this started a war at St. Dominique in the French Colony

38
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Who did Napoleon sell land to and for how much?

A

Louisiana Purchase

Thomas Jefferson $15 million

39
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Who did British join to try to stop Napoleon?

A

British
Russia
Austria
Sweden

40
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What is Napoleons strength and weakness?

A

Strength- land battle

Weakness- water battle

41
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What was Napoleon worried about?

A

Worried about who would succeed him, so he divorced his wife and married Marie Louise of Austria

42
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Who marched on the National Convention

A

Royalist rebels

43
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Who was Napoleon told to protect?

A

Delegates

44
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Who appointed Napoleon to lead the French army and against who?

A

Directory

Austria and Sardinia

45
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What did Napoleon order troops to do?

A

Surround National Legislative

46
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What was the Dissolved Directory?

A

3 consuls, Napoleon was one of them

47
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Coup d’état

A

Blow to the state

48
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Who joined together to stop Napoleon in 1799

A

England Austria and Russia

49
Q

Plebiscite

A

Vote of People

50
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What gave Consul all the power?

A

Plebiscite

51
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Lycees

A

Government ran public schools

52
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Concordat

A

agreement

53
Q

Comprehensive system of laws
limited liberty and promoted order
authority over individual rights

A

Napoleonic Code

54
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Napoleons 3 mistakes

A

Blockade with Europe and Britain
Peninsular War
Invasion of Russia

55
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Continental System

A

used to make Europe self sufficient and to destroy Britains economy

56
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Why was the Continental System thing dumb?

A

Brit controlled ocean

57
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What was the Peninsular War?

A

Nap sent invasion through Spain trying to make them accept the Continental System

58
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Guerrillas

A

Bands of Spanish peasant fighters

59
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Why was the Invasion of Russia a mistake?

A

They got trapped in Moscow by Alexander stupidly, and lost many men on the way home by leaving the same way they came

60
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Scorched Earth Policy

A

burning everything leaving nothing for the enemy to eat

61
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Battle of Borodino

A

Went into Moscow (old capital) and thinking they had won, but Alexander destroyed it and was laughing from a distance

62
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Why was Nap destined to lose at the Battle of Leipzig?

A

He had raised a new and untrained army

63
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Why did Napoleon return to power after being banished and what was this called?

A

He returned because they all hated Louis XVII and 100 days

64
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Waterloo

A

Battle Place in Belgium where Napoleon attacked the French and Lost one last time

65
Q

Foreign Minister of Austria

A

Metternich

66
Q

Series of Meetings in Vienna

A

Congress of Vienna

67
Q

5 Great Powers

A 
Russia
Prussia
Austria
Britain
France
68
Q

What made the Dutch stronger?

A

adding land

69
Q

Constitutional Monarchs

A

Britain and France

70
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Holy Alliance

A

Russia
Prussia
Austria
to stop the Revolution

71
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Concert of Europe

A

Help each other if Revolution breaks out

72
Q

Nationalism is growing but…..

A

ideas of democracy not disappearing

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