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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
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