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System of feudalism in Middle Ages

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Old Regime

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Social class

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Estate

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Became king in 1774

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Louis XVI

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Louis XVI wife

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Marie Antoinette

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Assembly of representatives from all 3 estates

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Estates-General

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Pass laws and reforms in the name of the French people

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National Assembly

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3rd estate delegates pledged to stay until new constitution was formed

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Tennis Court Oath

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Wave of senseless panic

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Great Fear

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Why were the members of the Third a Estate dissatisfied with their way of life under the Old Regime?

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They were heavily taxed and treated poorly

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Why was the fall of the Bastille important to the French Revolution?

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Bastille fell into control of citizens and it was symbolic because it showed progress in Revolution

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Statement of revolutionary ideals adopted by Frances National Assembly in 1789

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Declaration of the Rughts of Man

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Had power to create laws/to approve or prevent laws war the king declares

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Legislative Assembly

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Nobles and others who fled France during leasing uprising

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Émigres

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Most radical group

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Sans-Culottes

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Machine used to behead people

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Guillotine

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Gathered control after Louis XVI death

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Maximillien Robespierre

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Made to identify “enemies of the republic”

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Committee of Public Safety

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MR period of rule

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Reign of Terror

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Name three political reforms that resulted in the French Revolution.

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Declaration of the Rights of Man, incorporation of church into the state, and creation of the Legislative Assembly

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What was the Reign of Terror, and how did it end?

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Robespierre time of ruling where he killed thousands of people, it ended with Robespierre losing his head to the guilitene

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Became a lieutenant in army at age 16

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Napoleon Bonaparte

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Sudden seizure of political power

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Coup D’tat

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Vote of the people

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Plebiscite

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Government-run public schools

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Lycées

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Agreement

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Concordant

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Napoleons comprehensive system of laws

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Napoleonic Code

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Only major battle Napoleon lost

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Battle of Trafalgar

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Summarize Napoleons Reforms in France.

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Created a government ruled public schools, created the napoleonic code, and created a national banking system

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What steps did Napoleon take to create an empire in Europe?

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Gained fame though military defeats, then dissolved directory with a coup, and then became the first consul, and finally dictator

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Forcible closing of ports

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Blockade

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Supposed to make continental Europe more self-sufficient

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Continental System

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Bands of Spanish peasant fighters

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Guerrilla

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Napoleon lost 30,000 men/weakened French Empire

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Peninsular War

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Burning grain fields, slaughtering livestock, as to leave nothing that enemy could eat

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Scorched-Earth Policy

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Napoleon attacked British army in 1815

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Waterloo

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Defeat that ended Napoleon bud for power

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Hundred Days

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What factors led to Napoleons defeat in Russia?

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Starving men, sick from cold, Russian raiders constantly attacked them on their way home from retreat

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Summarize the reasons that the European allies were able to defeat Napoleon in 1814 and again in 1815.

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1814- army wasn’t trained

1815- got exhausted and gave away

39
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Series of meeting in Vienna/ called to set up policies

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Congress of Vienna

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Foreign minister of Austria who distrusted democratic ideals

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Klemens von Metternich

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No country’s would be a threat to others

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Balance of Powers

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Hereditary rift of a monarch to rule

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Legitimacy

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League of European nations

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Holy Alliance

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Assured that nations would help one another if any revolutions broke out

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Concert of Europe

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What were Metternich three goals at the congress of Vienna?

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Prevent future French aggression by surrounding France with string countries, wanted to restore a balance of power, and restore European royal families to throne

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How did Congress of Vienna assure peace in europe for the next 38 years?

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Settlements were far more successful than any other peace meeting in history, and nations were cooperating to control polictial affairs

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