Chapter 18/19 vocab and map

Bastille

Royal fortress and prison in Paris

Chafed

restricted or too tight

Terror

the policy that fought not only the foreign enemy but counterrevolutionaries at home as well and saved the republic

First Estate

comprised the clergy

Second Estate

comprised the nobility

Third Estate

included everyone else like wealthy lawyers and businessmen to urban laborers and poor peasants

Infusion

the act of providing more money or resources to make something better or stronger

Propietary

noble wealth tied to the land, urban properties, and purchased offices

estates general

a represented body of three estates of the realm that had not met since 1614

tennis court oath

taken by the third estate to form a national assembly and write a constitution 

Great Fear

peasants and villagers organized into militias and burned manor houses in order to destroy the records of manorial dues.

October Days

the women of Paris marched to Versailles to address the king because of the high price of bread

Jacobins

radical French political group during the French Revolution that took power and executed the French King

coup d’etat

a sudden, violent, unlawful seizure of power from a government

nation

formed of citizens, not of king’s subjects, ruled by law and treated its citizens as equal before the law

enclosure

privatizing what had been public agricultural land in 18th century Britain

tariff

a tax on goods coming into the country

spinning jenny

invented by James Hargreaves that allowed a worker to spin more thread

lucrative

producing great profit

Navies

construction workers on 18th century Britain’s canals

Nativists

opposed to foreigners

Peasantry

rural populations that lived from agriculture

limited-liability laws

allowed investors to own shares in a corporation without becoming responsible for company debts

Empire

a centralized political entity consolidated through the conquest and colonization of other nations

Demographic

relating to the structure of populations

Subsistence

maintaining or supporting oneself at a minimum level

Bourgeoisie

city dwellers like shopkeepers, lawyers, doctors and their families

probity

the quality of having strong moral principles; honesty and decency

segregation

setting someone or something apart from others

illegitimacy

the state of being born to parents not lawfully married

Using the Battlefields of the Seven Years' War map in your textbook, what area of South America did the Dutch control?

Guiana

Using the Europe in 1763 map in your textbook, was Switzerland included within the Holy Roman Empire?

No

Using the Europe in 1763 Map in your textbook, in Hungary and Austria which was more prevalent?

Habsburgs

Using the Europe in 1763 Map in your textbook, which was more prevalent in Silesia?

Prussia

Using the Europe in 1763 map in your textbook, was Denmark included within the Holy Roman Empire?

No

Using the Partitioning of Poland map in your textbook, which country gained the most territory at the expense of Poland?

Russia