Unit 5 key people and concepts

George Washington

George Washington

1st president of the United States, leading figure in the revolution

Maximilien Robespierre

Reign of terror and committee of public safety

Jean-Paul Marat

Journalist who publishes the “friend of the people” a newspaper and was killed in a bathtub

Toussaint L’Ouverture

Fought for the revolt in Saint-Domigue

Olympe de Gouges

Fought for women’s rights during the revolution

Edmund Burke

Irish politician who thought the French Revolution went too far and founded conservatism

Alexander I of Russia

Very religious who thought he was on a mission to save christianity and created the holy alliance and defeated Napoleon

Klemens von Metternich

Austrian prime minister who was against the unification of Germany and liberalism

Lord Castlereagh

British Foreign secretary at the congress of Vienna who wanted the balance of power

Johann Fichte

Romantic German poet who was for the unification of Germany and interest in German culture and language and against Napoleon

Liberal phase

French Revolution: active citizens could vote, church property was nationalised, liberal economics

Radical phase

Terror, de-christianistion, laws of general maximum, Jacobin constitution was not implemented because of the Prussian revolution

De-christianisation

Changed the calendar, removed saint days and saint named roads

Meritocracy

Social status is based on hard work and effort (bureaucracy)

Continental system

Napoleon occupied sates could not trade with Britain

Concert if Europe

Alliance of the big powers in Europe against liberalism and nationalism

Holy Alliance

Alexander I made an alliance to protect christianity (Russia, Austria, Prussia, France)

Romanticism

A litirarary movement celebrating emotion and nature

Abolitionism

Movement against slavery

Methodism

A protestant christian movement to revive the Church of England