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AP® European History flashcards
1
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“After me, the flood.” Lost the Seven Years’ War

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Louis XV

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French monarch during French Revolution; he was guillotined in 1794

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Louis XVI

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the negative difference between what a nation accumulates in tax revenue and what it spends in any given year

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annual deficit

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total accumulated deficits

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national debt

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condition under which you pay your creditors a reduced amount or you pay them nothing at all; results in ruined credit

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bankruptcy

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the concept that political power is derived from the people

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popular sovereignty

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states that people enter into a contract with those who govern them when they elect them and that they may REVOLT if their rights are not upheld

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social contract theory

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outlined social contract theory in Two Treatises on Government

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John Locke

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Spirit of the Laws; argued for separation of powers

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Baron de Montesquieu

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10
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well-educated middle class

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bourgeoisie

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term for pre-revolutionary France

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ancien regime

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12
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corporate body comprised of the clergy

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1st Estate

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13
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corporate body composed of the nobility

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2nd Estate

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14
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corporate body composing 97% of French population

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3rd Estate

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15
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giving 10% of income to Church

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tithe

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16
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tax on salt

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gabelle

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body comprised of three French estates

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Estates General

18
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“notebooks” of complaints brought by delegates to Estates General

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cahiers de doleances

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said nobility was tiny and overprivileged and Third Estate was truly representative of French people

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What is the Third Estate?

20
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said National Assembly would not disband until they had written a constitution

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Oath of the Tennis Court

21
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prison stormed by Parisians to gain weapons

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Bastille

22
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A general fear among the peasants that the aristocracy was going to starve them out after events in Paris

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Great Fear

23
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passed by the National Assembly; promoted equality before the law, representative govt, individual freedoms

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Declaration of the Rights of Man

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paper money created by the National Assembly

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assignats

25
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wrote Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790); father of modern conservatism

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Edmund Burke

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pamphlet that criticized the French Revolution as too radical

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Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

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wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Man and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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Mary Wollstonecraft

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more radical members of the Jacobin Club

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Mountain

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more moderate members of the Jacobin Club

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Girondists

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political club that supported the Revolution

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Jacobins

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created by the Mountain faction to radicalize the Revolution

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Committee of Public Safety

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radical, left-wing members of the lower-class

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san-culottes

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leader of the Mountain faction of Jacobins; later guillotined

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Robespierre

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dictatorial five man council that ruled from 1797 until 1799

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Directory

35
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agreement between Napoleon and Catholic Church that re-instated Catholicism in France

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Concordat of 1801

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Napoleon’s blockade of European ports; the purpose was to cut the British off from European trade

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continental system

37
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Napoleon’s last-ditched effort to re-take France in spring 1815

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Hundred days

38
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final defeat of Napoleon’s forces in Belgium by the Quadruple Alliance

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Waterloo

39
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French monarchy

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Bourbons

40
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battle in which Britain’s navy crushed Napoleon’s forces and prevented an invasion of Britain

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Trafalgar

41
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built Versailles and lost money for France in the War of Spanish Succession (1713)

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Louis XIV

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