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What percent of the French population made the third estate?

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97%

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What were the names of the social classes that people were divided into under the Old Regime in France’s 1770s?

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1st estate
2nd estate
3rd estate

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What was the name of the enlightened middle class of the third estate

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Bourgeoise

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What was the largest group in the third estate

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Peasants

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Which group paid the most taxes in the third estate? Why?

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The bourgeoise because they made the most money in the third estate

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What was the biggest kind of inequality between the states?

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Taxation and representation

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What was an estates general?

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An assembly of representatives from all three estates

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What did king louis xvi want to enforce the old rule at the old regime that the three estates had to meet separately?

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He wanted to pass his new taxation law making first and second estates have to pay taxes like the third

*impose taxes on nobility!

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How did the third estate want to meet and vote at the estates general and why did they want it that way

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They wanted all estates to meet up and have EVERY DELEGATE vote because they have more delegates than the first and second combined
*automatic win

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What did the third estate agree to do known as the tennis court act

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They would stay until they had written a new constitution

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What is the date of the storming of the Bastille

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July 14, 1789

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What is the name of the period where senseless panic caused the peasants to attack nobles?

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The great fear

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What kind of rights did the declaration of the man and citizen focus on

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Natural rights (John Locke)
Equal justice 
Freedom of speech + religion
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What was the motto of the French Revolution

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Liberty, equality, and fraternity

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What kind of government did the National Assembly create

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Limited constitutional monarchy

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What did a limited constitutional monarchy do

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It stripped the king of too much authority

Created a new legislative body

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What was the legislative body’s job

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Create laws

Approve/reject war declarations

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What was the group of nobles and other who fled France but wanted to restore the old regime

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Émigrés

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What was the name of the group of workers and shopkeepers who wanted even more revolutionary change in France

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Sans-culottes

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What two countries did France go to war with because they wanted France to restore king louis xvi

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Austria and Prussia

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What was the name of the radical political group in France that caused many changes in government

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Jacobins

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Which jacobin leader slowly gained power

What did he set out to create? How?

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Maximilien Robespierre
Republic of Virtue (COPS)
By wiping out France’s past

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During the reign of terror, which group carried out countless assassinations

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Committee of public safety (guillotine)

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How did Robespierre die?

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National convention members feared their safety and announced he needs to be killed

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What phrase means a sudden seize of power

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Coup d’État

25
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What is a plebiscite

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Vote of the people

26
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What are lycées

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Government run public schools

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What was the name of the system of uniform laws put in place in France by Napoleon that actually made him stronger

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Napoleonic Code

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What did the Napoleonic Code do

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  • eliminated injustices
  • limited liberty
  • promoted authority over individual rights
  • freedom of speech/press restricted
  • restored slavery in Caribbean French colonies
29
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Why did Napoleon sell Louisiana

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1) gain money to finance operations in Europe

2) punish Britain

30
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Who won the battle of trafalgar? How?

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British- spirit French fleet and captured ships

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What did the battle of trafalgar result in

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1) British supremacy for next 100 years
2) forced Napoleon to give up Britain invasion plans
3) Napoleon look for another way to control Britain (bc English Channel)

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What were napoleons three big mistakes

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The continental system
The peninsular war
Invasion of Russia

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How was the continental system bad for Napoleon

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Napoleon set up a blockade to prevent any nations to trade with Britain

  • -> ppl ignored it
  • ->British made own blockade
  • –>forced ships to sail to British port and be taxed
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Why was the peninsular war bad

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(1808)
Wanted Portugal to accept continental system
-->made his brother king
-->Spanish angered + upset
-->Brits sent troops to help spanish
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What were guerrilas and what did they do

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Spanish peasant fighters that attacked french armies

Small groups who ambushed troops

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What two countries did France attack in the peninsular war

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Spanish and Portuguese

37
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What was the scorched earth policy and who did it (June 1812)

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Burning grain fields and slaughtering live stock to leave no food for enemy
—–Russians

38
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Where was napoleons last battle and where did they send him after

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Village of Waterloo (Belgium)

–>st helena (remote island in south Atlantic l)

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What was the name of the defeat ending napoleons last bid for power

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Hundred days

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What was the idea of a balance of power in Europe

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No country would be a threat to others

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Who thought of balance of powers

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Klemes von Metternich

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What were Metternich’s three goals

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1) prevent future aggression by surrounding France w stronger counties
2) restore balance of power
3) restore royal families

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What was the name of the agreement that ensured that nations in Europe would help eachother if revolution broke out

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Concert of Europe

44
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What was the Holy Alliance

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Czar Alexander I
Emperor Francis I (Austria)
King Frederick William III (Prussia)

pledged to base their relations on Christian principles in order to combat forces of revolution

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How long did the actions of the concert of Europe have an affect on European politics

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100 years

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What is a republic

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Form of government in which power rests with citizens who have the right to elect leaders who make governmental decisions

47
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What is a concordat

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Agreement that established a new relationship between church and state

  • gov recognizes influence of church
  • church not allowed to take part in political affairs
48
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What is a legitimacy

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All rulers before Napoleon may be restored to their throne

49
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What came out of the French Revolution

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Fall of Bastille
National Assembly
Declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen
New constitution

50
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Who was in the first estate
Beliefs
How did they live

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Clergy of Roman Catholic Church
Against enlightenment ideas
No taxes
10% land ownership 
1% of ppl
51
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Who was in the second estate
Beliefs
How did they live

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Rich nobles
High government positions
Disagreed w enlightenment ideas
(2% ppl)

52
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Who was in the third estate
Beliefs
How did they live

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Bourgeoise 
Urban lower class
Peasant farmers
No governmental influence
Hated wealthy estates
(97% ppl)
53
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Groups within third estate

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1) bourgeoise (middle class)
Skilled workers, professionals, bankers 
Well educated, want enlightenment 
**HIGH TAXES
2) city workers (poorest)
Traders, apprentices, laborers, servants 
Low wages, out of work, hungry
3) peasants (largest group) 80%
Paid taxes on basic necessities

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