Unit 5 Ap Euro Key Terms

Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

passed by France’s National Constitute Assembly in August 1789, is a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human and civil rights.

Civil Constitution of the Clergy

a law passed on 12 July 1790 during the French Revolution, that subordinated the Roman Catholic Church in France to the French government

Jacobin

The radical republican party during French Revolution that displaced the Girondins

Maximillian Robespierre

A lawyer from northern France, who as leader for the Committee of Public Safety laid out the principles of the Reign of Terror

Committee of Public Safety

created in April 1793 by the National Convention and then restructured in July 1793, formed the de facto executive government in France during the Reign of Terror

Napoleon Bonaparte

The French General who became 1st Consul in 1799 and Emperor in 1804

Civil Code

The French Legal system formulated by Napoleon in 1804. It ensured equal treatment under the law to all men and guaranteed religious liberty, but it curtailed many rights of women.

Concordat of 1801

agreement between Napoleon Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII that reestablished the Roman Catholic Church in France

Congress of Vienna

Face to face negotiations (1814-1815) between the great powers to settle the boundaries of European states and determined who would rule each nation after the defeat of Napoleon

Jean-Paul Marat

notorious for his inspiring yet aggressive publications during the French Revolution, was

Declaration of Pillnitz

Principle of Legitimacy

Concert of Europe

Conservatism

Klemmens Von Metternich

Nationalism

Seven Years War

Liberalism

Women’s March on Versailles

Society of Republican Revolutionary Women