Terms
Famous instrument of execution during the French Revolution
What is the guillotine?
Political and social order in France before the French Revolution
What is the Old Regime?
Number of Estates in France
What is 3?
King during the French Revolution
What is King Louis XVI?
Stated that the 3rd estate would not disband until a written Constitution was established
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
Sudden and illegal seizure of power
What is coup d'etat?
Group that took the Tennis Court Oath
What is the National Assembly?
Name the 2 privileged classes and what they were exempt from
What is 1st-clergy 2nd-nobility taxes
Became first Consul for life
What is Napoleon?
1789 document listing all the rights of the French people
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
Temporary alliance of nations
What is coalition?
Advisory board to the King of France, similar to, but not as good as, Parliament
What is the Estates-General?
Breakdown of the 3rd Estate(Give percentages and people groups)
What is 98% (lawyers, doctors, bankers, businessman, city workers 18%)
peasants 80%
Led the British at the Battle of Waterloo
What is Duke of Wellington?
The most famous of all of Napoleons enduring accomplishments(putting all the French laws together)
What is Code Napoleon?
List of grievances of the French people
What is cahiers?
Government Napoleon established after the Directory
What is Consulate?
Marat, Danton and Robespierre were leaders of this group
What is the Jacobins?
Led the British at the Battle of Trafalgar
What is Lord Nelson?
Designed to cut off trade with Britain
What is the Continental System?
Mobilizing the entire French nation for battle
What is levee en masse?
Government group that directed the Reign of Terror
What is The Committee of Public Safety?
Paris workers of the lower class that wore full length trousers and were dissatisfied with the new constitution
What is the sans-cullottes?
Name a Jacobin executed by his own people
What is Danton?
The Assembly placed the Roman Catholic Church under state control through this document
What is the Civil Constitution of the Clergy?