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What was the Political and Social system in France before the revolution of 1789?
The old regime.
Who was in the first estate?
Clergy.
Who was in the second estate?
Nobility.
Who was in the third estate?
Everyone else (peasants, bourgeoisie)
What group were wealthy members of the third estate?
Bourgeoisie.
What is the name for people who did not show off their silk socks (poor people)?
Sans Culottes.
What was Frances largest issue before the revolution?
Endless debt.
What led to the debt in France?
Decades of reckless spending.
Who was responsible for the building of Versailles and many wars?
Louis XIV.
What King famously put pleasure before business and was a very weak ruler?
Louis XV
What king was very indecisive (Marie Antoinette's husband)?
Louis XVI
Who was fired from his position as finance minister for France after proposing to tax the first two estates?
Jacques Necker.
What was caused by extreme unpredictable weather events that was dangerous for France?
Crops Failing.
Why was the Estates general called?
France's financial crisis.
Why did the third estate meet in the tennis court?
They were padlocked out of the meeting hall.
What did the tennis court oath promise?
To meet until a French constitution was produced.
What do the tennis court oath ppl call themself?
The National Assembly.
What was the great fear.
A notable wave of panic that fled France after rumors of the king putting down the revolt.
Why was the Bastille stormed?
Members of the third estate wanted to get weapons.
Who makes up the Paris commune?
Radical city workers.
Where was liberty, equality, and fraternity written?
The Declaration of the rights of man.
Who was the national guard?
Lafeyette.
What happens to the King and Queen after the Bread March.
They are imprisoned in Paris.
What is the flight.
When the King & his family try to flee, he is captured and returned to paris after being recognized from a bill.
Who hit first France or Prussia?
France.
How did Napoleon spread enlightenment ideas through Europe?
"exporting the revolution".
Who runs the day to day in France under the new government?
The committee of public safety.
Who does the reign of terror target?
Everyone.
What do the 5 directors become?
Corrupt.
Who becomes emperor of France in 1804?
Napoleon Bonaparte.
Who crowns Napoleon?
Himself - he takes the crown from the Pope to show he's more powerful than the Church.
What is a plebicite?
A vote typically yes or no.
What does Napoleon do for France.
Starts public schools + has economic control.
What document makes peace with the church?
The concordat.
What is a coup d'etat
A stroke of state (overthrow)
What set of laws were created by Napoleon?
The Napoleonic code.
What blocked everyone from trading with england?
The continental system.
Who withdrew from the continental system first?
Russia in 1810.
Why did France attack Russia first?
Because they broke the continental system
What stratagy did Russia adapt to slow the French?
Scorched Earth.
What is the point of using scorched earth?
To destroy anything that might be of use to the French(food, shelter, supplies)
abdicate meaning?
To renounce oneself typically from a political standpoint.
Where does Napoleon go to after he abdicates?
Elba(tuff island in Italy)
Where does Napoleon become imprisoned after losing waterloo?
St Helena(Not tuff, in prison until he dies, also is tormented).
What did Napoleon sell to help fund his wars?
The Louisiana purchase.
Who were the two biggest examples of revolution to the Latin colonies?
The American and French revolution.
How was the Haitian revolution different that the rest of the Latin revolutions?
It was a slave revolution.
Who was the main man of the Haitian revolution?
Toussaint L'Overture.
What did the slaves of Haiti produce?
Sugar & Coffee.
Why was the Haitian revolution so complicated along racial lines?
Because there were free blacks who wanted freedom for the people as well as whites.
What was Haiti after liberation?
The first black republic.
Where did San Martin free?
Rio de La Plata.(Argentina & Chile)
Where did Simon Bolivar free?
New Granada.
Who was Miguel Hidalgo?
A Creole priest that called for Mexican independence, dies before movement is finished.
Where did Miguel Hidalgo free?
Mexico.