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Vocabulary: French Revolution Flashcards

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Heliocentric theory

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Believe that the planets and stars revolve around the sun

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Believe that the sun and moon and stars revolve around the earth

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Geocentric theory

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Challenge the idea that kings ruled by Divine right

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Philosophes

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Non-intervention of government in the affairs of business

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Laissez-faire

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Elegant room where parties were held to spread and debate the ideals of the enlightenment

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Salon

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Believe that God created the earth and does not interfere with how it runs

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Deism

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An agreement people make to create a government

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Social contract

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An absence of rules laws or government

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State of nature

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Believe that monarchs receive the right to rule from God and our accountable only to God

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Divine right of kings

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When King Charles came back to Parliament rule

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Restoration

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Means show me the body a law pass by king Charles, you can’t keep someone in prison for an extended period of time if they haven’t found body

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Habeas corpus

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12
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The people have the ultimate power

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Popular sovereignty

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13
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Liberty property and resistance to oppression

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Unalienable rights

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14
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Political social and economic system in France left over from the middle ages includes the three estates

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Old regime

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Device used during the reign of terror to behead people called the national razor

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Guillotine

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16
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“No breaches” most radical group that was out for revenge

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Sans Cullottes

17
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The right to vote

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Suffrage

18
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Prosecution of enemies of the revolution, about 40,000 people killed

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Reign of terror

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An army that was to attack France Austria, Prussia, Spain, Portugal and Britain

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First coalition

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Middle class (merchants)

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Bourgeoisie

21
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Sudden takeover of a country

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Coup d’état

22
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Burn everything so enemy army has no resources

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Scorched earth policy

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