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French And Haitian Revolutions Flashcards

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Trafalgar

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Battle in Spain between French (under rule of Napoleon) and the British. British win and crush Napoleon’s hopes of conquering Britain by military force.

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13th Vendemaire

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Napoleon dispersed the crowds in Paris with a “whiff of grapeshot”

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18th Fructidor

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Directory overthrows the government (National Convention)

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19th Brumaire

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Napoleon overthrows the directory

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Plebiscite

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A vote of all the people asking permission for more power

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9th of Thermidor

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National Convention shuts down Robespierre from speaking and it is an end to his reign. Robespierre is executed the next day.

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Law of 22 Prarial

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Gave tons more power to Robespierre and the Committee of Public Safety which allowed them to execute people with almost no evidence

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Waterloo

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Napoleon’s last battle with an army he drew up from Paris. Fights against the Quadruple Alliance and loses. France is punished by losing land and being occupied by soldiers.

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Jean Paul Marat

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Had a radical newspaper in Paris. It supported radicals so a conservative woman, Charlotte Corday, killed him while he was taking a bath.

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Continental System

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A policy forced onto mainland Europe by Napoleon which banned trade with Britain. Napoleons armies lost at Trafalgar so he is trying to destroy Britain economically instead of militarily. This system fails

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Russian Campaign

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Russia dropped out of the Continental System so Napoleon invaded but the Russians followed the Scorched Earth Policy and had cold winters which caused most of Napoleon’s army to die and get nothing done

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Paris Commune

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The leaders of the San culottes. They were like a government body sort of but they directed the San culottes in their riots.

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Levee en masse

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Called everyone to participate in the war effort

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Great Fear

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Peasants terrorized country, destroying their feudal duties and forced the nobles to give up their feudal rights.

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Tennis Court Oath

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Members of the 3rd Estate were accidentally locked out of the palace at Versailles. They go into the tennis courts, create the National Assembly, and vow that they won’t leave Versailles until a constitution is written

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Jacobins

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Politicians in France. Split into liberal and conservative, The Mountain and Girondists

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Borgouise

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Wealthy members of the 3rd Estate

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Girondists

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Members of the Gironde party. Conservative party in the revolution

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Bread March

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Parisian women march to Versailles, take flour, and force Louis XVI and family back to Paris. There was a drought which caused a shortage of grain

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Marie Antoinette

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Wife of King Louis XVI. Cousin of Leopole II

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Civil Constitution of the Clergy

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A law passed which seized all land from the church, made the clergy workers of the state, and forced them to pledge allegiance to the state or be imprisoned. Bonds were issued for the taken land which were used as currency (were not supposed to) and caused inflation. Sparked the counter-revolution

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September Massacres

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People storm the prisons and kill 1200 people, assuming they were opposed to the revolution

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Reign of Terror

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Reaction to internal and external threats (counter-revolution & Austria/Prussia). Policy that uses fear and the guillotine to eliminate opponents of the revolution.

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Louis XVI

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King of France at the start of the revolution. Calls for assembly of Notables to pass new taxes but they say only Estates General can do that. Calls Estates General for first time in 175 years and doubles the 3rd

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Estates

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Classes of France.
1st- Clergy
2nd- Nobles
3rd- Common People

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Cause of French Revolution

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1st and 2nd estates have over 50% of the wealth but dont pay taxes. Government needs money so the king Calls for assembly of Notables to pass new taxes but they say only Estates General can do that. Calls Estates General for first time in 175. He doubles the third and calls for a vote by headcount which actually allows some changes

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Enlightened Monarchs

Enlightened Despots

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Patroned the Philosophes and/or philosophers to make it seem like they were open to new ideas and they were sometimes but they would not do anything that threatened the old order.

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Philosophes

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Writers and critics who forged the new attitude of the Enlightenment

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Enlightenment

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intellectual movement emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition

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National Assembly

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Members of the 3rd Estate created it at the tennis courts when they were accidentally locked out of the palace at Versailles. This group made the Tennis Court Oath

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European wars before the French Revolution

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France vs Britain- 1740s & the 7 Years War (focused on battles for colonial empires)

Austria vs Prussia- Prussia gains land

The wars were diplomacy by another means

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Goals of the Congress of Vienna

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Reverse the clock. Bring back the old order. Create a balance of power

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Conservative rethrenchment

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Bringing the conservative, old order governments back into power after the French Revolution

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Revolutions of 1848

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Radical uprisings throughout Europe after the French Revolution. Violently put down by conservative governments

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Thermidorian Reaction

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The reaction to the fall of Robespierre. Consirvatives come back into power and have the white terror, getting rid of radicals

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Directory

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Executive body of Constitution of the Year III

Chosen by council of elders. 5 person executive body

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Saint Domingue

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French colony where the Haitian revolutions happened

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Reasons for Haitian Revolution

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Slaves were treated horribly. Gens de Colour and whites were fighting. Slaves took advantage of the opportunity and took over the colony

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Toussaint Louverture

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“Black Napoleon”

Main leader of the Haitian Revolution

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Order of Governments of the French Revolution

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EG NA NCA LA NC D C E

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Finance Ministers

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Maupeou
Turgot
Necker
Calonne
Brienne

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