Chapter 6 French Revolution

Double Jeopardy

war tactic involving hit- and-run raids Guerrilla warfare

popular vote by ballot Plebiscite

the French social classes The Estates

French middle class Bourgeoisie

working class men and women in Paris Sans Cullottes

Daughter of Maria Theresa of Austria who became the queen of France Marie Antoinette

First Estate

Participants in this swore to continue meeting until they were able to bring about a just constitution Tennis Court Oath

In 1789, the delegates to the Third-Estate that broke away and declared themselves to be the ___. National Assembly

Louis XVI was forced to dismiss this financial advisor when he proposed a tax on the first and second estate Jacques Necker

The Enlightenment

The people of Paris stormed this on July 14, 1789, because they thought there were weapons inside The Bastille

The women who marched here refused to leave until the king agreed to return to Paris Versailles

Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

form of government created by the National Assembly with the Constitution of 1791 Limited Monarchy

Louis XVI

The radical group who replaced the royalist government in Paris and used violent action to further the revolution The Paris Commune

During the Reign of Terror, trials and executions were carried out under the authority of this group the Committee of Public Safety

believed that France could achieve a “republic of virtue” only through the use of terror Robespierre

In the this, the king of Prussia and emperor of Austria threatened to intervene to protect the French monarchy. Declaration of Pilnitz

The Directory

The three man governing board that Napoleon and his followers set up after overthrowing the Directory in 1799 Consulate

war tactic that helped the Russians defeat Napoleon Scorched-earth policy

Napoleon’s final defeat Waterloo

Austria’s foreign minister who helped create a new European order at the Congress of Vienna Clemens von Metternich

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Chapter 6 The French Revolution

Final Jeopardy

when a government spends more money than it takes in Deficit Spending

dissenting groups of people factions

the right to vote suffrage

method for carrying out executions during the Reign of Terror Guillotine

notebooks listing the grievances of the three estates cahiers

a popular military hero who seized control of the Directory Napoleon Bonaparte

Admiral Horatio Nelson

Leader of the Jacobins who led France through the Reign of Terror Maximillian Robespierre

French general who fought in the American Revolution and headed the largely middle-class National Guard in France Marquis de Lafayette

journalist who demanded equal rights for women who was eventually arrested and executed Olympe de Gouges

the economic warfare used by Napoleon which closed European Ports to British goods Continental System

laws that embodied Enlightenment principles such as equality of all citizens before the law, religious toleration, and the abolition of feudalism Napoleonic Code

The Congress of Vienna

The Congress of Vienna promoted this principle of legitimacy by restoring hereditary monarchies Legitimacy

country was able to remain outside Napoleon’s European empire Britain (UK)

13 th Amendment

Scalawags

15 th Amendment

sharecropping

Reconstruction Act of 1867

When the new National Convention met in 1792, the form of government the radicals created republic

Chisholm Trail

Populist Party

Credit Mobilier

Haymarket Riot (Affair)

Topic: Revolution Port city from which French troops marched to a rousing new song that became the national anthem of France