Chapter 7-The French Revolution And Napolean Vocab.

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One of the three social classes in France before the French Revolution-the First Estate consisting of the clergy; the second Estate, of the nobility; and the Third Estate, of the rest of the population

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Estate

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The political and social system that existed in France before the French Revolution

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Old Regime

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An indecisive king who did not care for the welfare of the people and put the government into debt

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Louis XVI

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An Austrian princess Louis XVI married when he was 15 and she 14; “Madam Deficit”

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Marie Antoinette

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An assembly of representatives from all three of the estates, or social classes, in France

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Estates-General

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A French Congress established by representatives of the Third Estate on June 17,1789, to enact laws and reforms in the name of the French people

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National Assembly

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A pledge made by the members of France’s National Assembly in 1789, in which they vowed they continued meeting until they had drawn up a new constitution

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Tennis Court Oath

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A wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of Bastille in 1789

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Great Fear

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A statement of revolutionary ideas adopted by France’s National Assembly in 1789

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Declaration of the Rights of Man

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A French Congress with the power to create laws and approve declarations of war, established by the constitution of 1791

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Legislative Assembly

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People who leave their native country for political reasons, like the nobles and others who fled France during the peasant uprisings of the French Revolution

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Emigres

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In the French Revolution, a radical group made of Parisian wage-earners and small shopkeepers who wanted a greater voice in government, lower prices, and an end to food shortages

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Sans-culottes

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A machine for beheading people, used as a means of execution during the French Revolution

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Guillotine

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A radical who at first believed in a “republic of virtue”, he later became mad with lower and was sentenced to his death by the guillotine

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Maximilian Robespierre

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A committee established during the French Revolution to identify,”enemies of the republic”

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Committee of Public Safety

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The period, from mid-1793 to mid-1794, when Maximilian Robespierre ruled France nearly as a dictator sentenced thousands of political figures and ordinary citizens executed

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Reign of Terror