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Despised French prison that was attacked in July of 1789 by revolutionaries seeking gunpowder

Bastille

100

specific social class of pre-revolution France that included the commoners

3rd Estate

100

French general who seized power in France in a 1799 coup d’etat; crowned himself emperor and increased created a French empire across Europe

Napoleon Bonaparte

100

Enlightenment thinker; ideas include separation of powers – there should be three branches of government to prevent tyranny

Montesquieu

100

this country’s harsh winter climate helped defeat invading French armies in the early 1800’s

Russia

200

motto of the French Revolution that inspired revolutionaries in Latin America

liberty, equality, fraternity

200

class structure of France prior to the revolution; consisted of three classes of differing sizes

Estates System

200

Toussaint L’Ouverture, a former slave inspired by ideas of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, lead a revolution against France in what country?

Haiti

200

leader of the Committee of Public Safety who more-or-less ruled as a dictator during the violent stage of the French Revolution… until his own execution

Maximilien Robespierre

200

concept originally used during the Scientific Revolution; Enlightenment thinkers expanded its meaning to include the notion that people are born with rights, rather than granted to them by a king

natural law

300

Important French document ‘declaring’ people had equal rights and government’s duty was to serve all citizens; inspired by Enlightenment ideas

Declaration of the Rights of Man & Citizen

300

concept that a monarch’s power to rule comes from God; claimed by French kings

divine right

300

term for absolute monarchs, such as Catherine the Great of Russia, who incorporated Enlightenment ideas into their rule

Enlightened Despots

300

Enlightenment thinker; ideas include ‘consent of the governed’ and that government should protect people’s natural rights of life, liberty and property

John Locke

300

Name of palace built by French Bourbon dynasty kings to control the nobles required to live there

Versailles

400

Violent period of the French Revolution where thousands were accused of being ‘enemies of the French Republic’ by the Committee of Public Safety and executed by the guillotine

Reign of Terror

400

late-1600’s and 1700’s movement in Europe; thinkers applied reason to answer political questions; inspired by the questioning of traditional thinking of the earlier Scientific Revolution

enlightenment

400

Influential French set of laws developed in 1800s that included Enlightenment ideas such as the right to property and protected civil rights

Napoleonic Code

400

revolutionary general from South America; ‘The Liberator,’ lead successful revolutionary wars against Spain in early 1800’s; tried to create a unified ‘Gran Colombia’

Simon Bolivar

400

a set of ideas or belief system

ideology

500

French organized group that made up primarily of commoners that formed in 1789; took the ‘Tennis Court Oath’ pledging not to disband until France had a new constitution

National Assembly

500

assembly of representatives from each of the three estates of France; each estate had one vote despite their lopsided population sizes

Estates General

500

The conservative leaders at the 1815 Congress of Vienna (in Austria) attempted to restore what across Europe?

Absolute monarchies to power

500

pen name (not real name) of author who criticized French revolutionary documents as having ‘forgotten’ women; wrote her own “complementary” versions

Olympe de Gouges

500

economic system used by Spain (and other European powers) in 1700’s that imposed strict trade controls on its Latin American colonies; created discontent among colonist merchants

Mercantilism

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