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Form of government in which the king has all the power.
What is absolute monarchy?
He was a absolute monarch during 1643-1715
Who is Louis the XIV?
Made up of the peasants. Had to pay taxes.
What is the Third Estate?
Used as a more humane method of execution.
What is the Guillotine?
One of the last governments during the F.R.; five directors;unsuccessful; Napoleon overthrows it.
What is The Directory?
United States paid France $15 million for this land.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Inspired the French Revolution. Questioned tradition with reason.
What is the Age of Enlightenment?
Common slogan of the French Revolution. Goals of the French Revolution.
What is liberty, equality, and fraternity?
A series of major conflicts with various coalitions (alliances) of European nations.
What is Napoleonic Wars?
Official start to the French Revolution.
What is The Storming of the Bastille?
Introduced a new constitution and a legal code.
Represented the people. Made up of third estate.
What is the National Assembly?
Time period when many people were executed.
What is the Reign of Terror?
Series of meetings in which European leaders sought to establish long-lasting peace and security.
What was the Congress of Vienna?
The National Assembly vowed to create a new constitution.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
He was a victim of the guillotine for being a "threat to the nation"
Who is Maximilen Robespierre?
The purpose of this document is to change the government (fair government).
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
Wanted to wipe out "every trace of France's past." Considered the past old-fashioned and dangerous.
What is the Jacobins?
Took place in Belgium, the French were defeated by the British, and marked the end of the reign of Napoleon.
What is the Battle of Waterloo?
purpose of Vienna
what is to provide long-term peace for Europe after the Napoleonic wars
became leader of the Committee of Public Safety
Robespierre
Made up of different groups of people called "Estates."
What is Estates General?
Goal was to protect the Revolution from its enemies.
What is The Committee of Public Safety?
country that was not present at the congress of viennia
what is Germany