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Early Revolution
Reign of Terror
Napoleon
Europe's Revolutions
Miscellaneous
100
Members of the 1st Estate
Who is the clergy?
100
Leader of the Reign of Terror
Who is Robespierre?
100
Napoleon's final defeat
What is the Battle of Waterloo?
100
Conference held after Napoleon's defeat to redistribute the balance of power in Europe
What is the Congress of Vienna?
100
A government that receives its power from the people
What is a republic?
200
A system of government in which one person has absolute authority to rule and govern.
What is a monarchy?
200
Method of execution used during the Reign of Terror
What is the guillotine?
200
To surrender the throne
What is to abdicate?
200
Intense pride in one's country
What is nationalism?
200
Top of the 3rd Estate consisting of bankers, doctors, lawyers, etc.
What is the bourgeoisie?
300
Medieval prison that was stormed by protesters because it symbolized the king's power & housed weapons/gunpowder.
What is the Bastille?
300
Government that ruled France during the Reign of Terror
What is the National Convention?
300
The series of laws established by Napoleon to spread equality before the law & religious toleration
What is the Napoleonic Code?
300
Austrian minister who led the Congress of Vienna
Who is Metternich?
300
Queen of France who was the target of much criticism and hatred
Who is Marie Antoinette?
400
The palace to where women marched to protest the rising costs of bread & the extravagance of the king & queen.
What is Versailles?
400
Radical politicians in the National Convention
Who are the Jacobins?
400
A system in which people are rewarded based on their skills rather than their social standing
What is a meritocracy?
400
Ideology that believed in freedom of speech & religion; laissez-faire economics
What is liberalism?
400
12 member committee that protected France from threats to the revolution
What is the Committee of Public Safety?
500
Document based on the American Bill of Rights & Declaration of Independence that declared all French men are born equal and free.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
500
Working-class revolutionaries of the Reign of Terror
Who are the sans culottes?
500
Napoleon's attempt to block trade between Great Britain & the rest of Europe
What is the continental system?
500
Known as the "Citizen King," he gained power after Charles X fled the country
Who is Louis Philippe?
500
He became leader of France after Louis Philippe was removed as king
Who is Napoleon III?