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Leader who became emperor of France and conquered much of Europe before being exiled on two separate occasions
Napoleon
This taking over of a French prison started the French Revolution
Storming of the Bastille
Being kicked out of your homeland or forced to live elsewhere
Exile
Jacobin leader who ruled France like a dictator during the Reign of Terror
Maximilien Robespierre
King who was deposed and then executed when the French Revolution got underway
Louis XVI
Napoleon's last battle
Waterloo
A sudden overthrow of the government
Coup
Device used to behead people during the Reign of Terror
Guillotine
Wife of Louis XVI whose lavish spending earned her the nickname of Madame Deficit
Marie Antoinette
Vow taken by members of the Third Estate to not give up until a new Constitution was created
Tennis Oath Vow
Fighting by small groups, using tactics such as sudden ambushes
Guerrilla warfare
Radical party who came to power in the immediate aftermath of the French Revolution
He was a former enslaved person who led the Haitian Revolution and helped establish Haiti as an independent nation
Toussaint L'Ouverture
This was a spontaneous protest of high bread prices that had thousands marching from Paris to Versailles
Women's March
Military strategy of burning livestock and crops to prevent an enemy from having resources
Scorched-earth strategy
Name one of the islands Napoleon was exiled to
Elba or St. Helena
Jacobin who was famous for writing editorials supporting the revolution and was later assassinated while taking a bath
Jean-Paul Marat
This meeting of diplomats attempted to essentially undo the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars
Congress of Vienna
France’s first set of national laws; eliminated the nobility and allowed freedom of religion
Napoleonic Code
French nobility who fled the country to escape the revolution; wanted to restore the monarchy
Emigres