Topic 12 Lesson 6-8 The French Revolution

a widespread scarcity of food

famine

Medieval social system abolished by the National Assembly in 1789

Old regime

Social class hierarchy during the French old regime was known as

three estates

the majority of the French population belonged to this social class

Third Estate

French marquis who fought alongside Washington in the American Revolution

Lafayette

French king's palace where the Estates General was held in 1789

Versailles

Declaration of the _ issued by the National Assembly in the Summer of

1787.

Rights of Man and the citizen

French King Louis XVI's adviser

Jaques Necker

revolutionary assembly formed by representatives of the Third Estate

National Assembly

oath made on a tennis court by the Third Estate

Tennis Court Oath

time of peasants' desperation and rebellions

The great fear

the fortress used as a prison, stormed by the Parisians

Bastille

notebooks used in pre-revolutionary France to record grievances

Cahiers

Motto of the French Revolution

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

the capital of France

Paris

European intellectual movement that heavily influenced the American and French revolutions

Enlightement

Old regime in French

Ancien Regime

French king during the French Revolution

Louis XVI

Queen of France during the French Revolution

Marie Antoinette

Peasants paid taxes on it but nobles did not

soap

the poorest members of the Third Estate

urban workers

The French nobles belonged to this social class

Second Estate

French legislative assembly that represented the three estates

Estates General

The French middle-class society

Bourgeoisie

people who belonged to the First Estate

clergy

this city was the center of the French Revolution

Paris

A group of working-class French who wore long pants instead of upper-class breeches. They supported the republican cause rather than a monarchy

sans-culottes

In the Battle of _British and Prussian forces defeated the French and Napoleon

abdicated again

Waterloo

After Russia, Britain, Austria, and Prussia allied, they defeated Napoleon's army in this battle

Battle of nations

The right to work

Suffrage

Great Britain, Prussia, Russia, and Austria set up this group to carry out the goals of the Congress of Vienna and to stop any uprisings

Concert of Europe

The influential leader of the French Revolution who led the Reign of Terror

Robespierre

a direct vote by the people to approve the government's policies

plebiscite

Napoleon's unfortunate strategy to hurt British trade by banning trade between Britain and states occupied by or allied with France

Continental system

A political club made mostly of lawyers and intellectuals that supported the republican cause

Jacobins

A civil code enacted on March 21st, 1804 that clarifies and makes uniform the laws of France

Napoleonic Code

A five-man group ruling France according to the 1795 Constitution

Directory

this nation was not a part of Napoleon's empire

Britain

Wars fought from 1804 to 1812 to create a huge French empire under Napoleon

Napoleonic Wars

this nation was not a part of Napoleon's empire

Russia

A Congress among European powers to reorganize Europe after years of war with France

Congress of Vienna

French King that ruled France after Napoleon abdicated

Louis XVIII

A state dependent on Napoleon's empire

Spain

He crowned himself emperor of France in 1804

Napoleon Bonaparte

French Legislative body's new name in the year 1793

National convention

An empire allied with France during Napoleon's empire

Austrian

Name of the new government established in 1799 with a three-man governing board

consulate