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100
Great mlitary leader and eventual emperor during the French Revolution.
Who is Napoleon?
100
Pride in one's country
What is nationalism?
100
The right to vote.
What is suffrage?
100
Place/event where the National Assembly vowed to keep meeting until a new constitution was adopted.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
100
Humane form of execution using during the French Revolution.
What is the guillotine?
200
To add territory to an existing country.
What is annex?
200
French Middle Class
What is the bourgeoisie?
200
To give up or step down from power.
What is abdicate?
200
Members of the third estate stormed this place looking for weapons when King Louis XVI summoned his troops to Paris.
What is the Bastille?
200
Type of government set up by the National Assembly and Constitution of 1791?
What is a limited monarchy?
300
The "architect" of the Reign of Terror
Who is Robespierre?
300
The military tactic that helped the Russians defeat Napoleon.
What is the scorched-earth policy?
300
When a government spends more money than it takes in.
What is deficit spending?
300
Type of government set up by the National Convention in 1792.
What is a repbulic?
300
Group of laws reflecting the Enlightenment principles
What is the Napoleonic Code?
400
This man was a role model for moderate revolution factions.
Who was Marquis de Lafayette?
400
A person who fled France for political reasons during the French Revolution.
What is an emigre?
400
Popular vote by ballot
What is plebiscite?
400
The invasion of this country led to Napoleon's eventual downfall.
What is Russia?
400
Throughout the winter and spring of 1789 high prices for commodity produced many riots.
What is bread?
500
Group created to deal with internal and external threats to France and the revolution.
What is the Committee of Public Safety?
500
The old social order of France; under this people were divided into three social classes.
What is the ancien regime?
500
The name for the economic warfare Napoleon used against Great Britain.
What is the Continental System?
500
The war that cost so much money and hurt France economically.
What is the French and Indian War?
500
A system in which the powers of Europe met periodically to discuss any problems affecting the peace in Europe.
What is the Concert of Europe?