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The "humane" invention for execution during the Reign of Terror
What is a guillotine?
This is the country that had a slave revolt that took over sugar production and Napoleon tried but failed to retake it
What is Haiti?
This was the author of the Declaration of the Rights of Women who was executed during the Reign of Terror
Who is Olympe de Gouges?
The King of France during the French Revolution
Small bands of combatants that would attack and then hide (in Spain, they killed 300,000 French soldiers)
What are guerillas?
The part of an army that handles guns and heavy armaments
What is the artillery?
The women of Paris grabbed knives and axes and marched on Versailles to confront the king over the price of this
What is bread?
Mary Wollstonecraft's daughter Mary Shelley wrote this classic "monster" book
What is Frankenstein?
The Emperor of France who conquered most of Europe and was exiled to St. Helena after his defeat
Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?
King Louis XVI had to call for a meeting of this body that included delegates of the First, Second, and Third Estates to address his plan for new taxes
What is the Estates-General?
This was the period under Robespierre where 40,000 were executed (largely by guillotine) for being enemies of the Revolution
What is the Reign of Terror?
This is what the rioters were after when the stormed the Bastille prison and killed its guards and commander
What are weapons and gunpowder?
Members of the Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath, vowing not to leave the indoor tennis court until they had written this
What is a new constitution?
The King of France after Napoleon's first exile who was brother to the King of France during the French Revolution
Who was Louis XVIII?
Prussia, Russia, Austria, Great Britain, and France came together to discuss how to stabilize Europe after Napoleon's defeat
What is the Congress of Vienna?
The term describes how power should be split up among communities/countries to ensure no country overpowers another as Napoleon had
What is balance of power?
This event is where citizens rooted out royal sympathizers from prisons, killing 1000 priests and nobles
What are the September Massacres?
Members of the National Assembly wrote this document listing the rights of the French people
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Men and of the Citizen?
The Jacobin who was leader of France during the Reign of Terror
Who was Maximilien Robespierre?
Austria, Prussia, and Russia agreed to respect the various Christian belief systems among them
What is the Holy Alliance?
This belief system glorified Europe's history and favored feeling over reason, nature over manufacturing, and past over present
What is romanticisim?
This was the spread of rebellion into the countryside causing paranoia and panic among nobles and peasants alike.
What is the Great Fear?
The author of the "Friends of the People" newspaper during the French Revolution
This group of five men led France after the Reign of Terror and before Napoleon's rise to power
What is the Directory?
The great powers of Europe come together and chose to use one voice, make common policies, and hold each other accountable to agreements between each other (this is a precursor to the European Union)
What is the Concert of Europe?