The meeting that King Louis XVI called upon because he wanted to raise taxes due to the massive amounts of debt France was in.
What is the Estates General
Where was Napoleon born?
Corsica (Italy)
Group of radicals during the French Revolution. They were led by Maximilian Robespierre from 1793 to 1794
Who are the Jacobins
Russia, Austria, Great Britain
This was the execution technology used during the Reign of Terror
Guillotine
This was a system in which France declared that its allies cannot trade with Great Britain to weaken them financially
The Continental System
What is the Enlightenment
The most violent phase of the Revolution where there were over 17,000 executions
The Reign of Terror
Working men who didn't wear silk pants
the Sans-Culottes
This was the civil code put out by Napoleon that granted equality of all male citizens before the law and granted absolute security of wealth and private property
Napoleonic Codes
This was the first violent act of the French Revolution where an angry mob stole weapons from a prison in Paris.
The Storming of Bastille
This group off merchants, lawyers and bankers made up the upper class of the Third Estate
What is Bourgeosie
Statement of fundamental political rights adopted by the French National Assembly at the beginning of the French Revolution- their new constitution
What is Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
What was Napoleon's last battle?
What is the Battle of Waterloo
When the Third Estate promised to continue to meet and write a new French Constitution
Tennis Court Oath