Tags & Description
Old Regime
Social and Political system in France
Estate
Three large Social classes
Louis XVI
King of France, last Monarch before the French Revolution
Marie Antoinette
One of the Hapsburgs, who became Queen of France Married to Louis XVI
Estates General
Assembly of representatives of all three Estates
National Assembly
Third Estates names themselves, and pass laws and reforms in the name of French people
Tennis Court Oath
3rd estate Pledge to stay until a new constitution was written
Great Fear
Wave of senseless panic, peasants became outlaws
Legislative Assembly
This group had the power to create laws, and accept or reject declarations of war
Emigre
Nobles and other people who had fled France, hoped to undo Revolution and restore old regime
Sans Culotte
Parisian and small shopkeepers who wanted the Revolution to bring even greater changes
Jacobin
People involved in governmental Changes, radical/ political organization
Guillotine
Cruel Form of Capital Punishment, king was beheaded by this machine
Maximilien Robespierre
The Jacobin Leader, he set up to build a Republic of Virtue
Reign of Terror
The Year where Robespierre governed France virtually as a dictator.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Joined the Army during the revolution, took the name of First Consul and assumed powers of Dictator
Coup d’état
“Blow to the state”
Plebiscite
Also known as vote of the People, to approve for a new constitution.
Lycée
Government-Run Public Schools who were open to male students of all Backgrounds
Concordat
Agreement signed with Pope Pius VII, establish a new relationship between Church and State
Napoleonic Code
Napoleons Comprehensive system of laws, which gave the country a uniform set of laws, limited injustice.
Battle of Trafalgar
Naval defeat on 1805 where Horatio Nelson split larger French Fleet capturing several ships.
Blockade
Forcible Closing of Ports to prevent trade and communication between Great Britain and other European Countries
Continental System
Policy that was supposed to make continental Europe a little more self Sufficient
Guerrilla
Not armies, worked in small groups that ambushed French Troops and Fled into hiding.
Peninsular war
Napoleon looses 300,000 men that weakened the Empire, Spain lies on the Iberian Peninsula
Scorched-earth policy
Burning Grain Fields and Slaughtering live-stock to leave nothing for the enemy to eat
Waterloo
1815, Napoleon Attacks, however the British Army defended its ground. Prussia and British Armies attacked against French.
Hundred days
The Defeat that ended Napoleons Power, where British people send Napoleon into Exile.
Congress of Vienna
Series of meetings in Vienna to set up policies and achieve a New European Order.
Klemens von Metternich
Prince of Austria, one of the most influential representatives in the congress.
Balance of power
Trying for no country to be a threat amongst other countries.
Legitimacy
Agreeing that as many as the possible rulers whom Napoleon had driven from their thrones, restored to power.
Holy Alliance
Czar Alexander I - Russia, Emperor Francis I of Austria and King Fredrick William III - Prussia signed an Agreement, base relations with other nations on Christian Principles
Concert of Europe
Ensured Nations would help each other if a Revolution ever broke out.