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What were the three estates (who made up each estate) in the Old (Ancien) Regime of France?
First Estate - Clergy
Second Estate - Nobility
Third Estate - Everybody Else
This French lawyer became the leader of the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
This strategy was used by the Russians when being invaded by Napoleon.
What is scorched earth policy?
One similarity in the Atlantic Revolutions was the inspiration by this "Age of Reason", which promoted the idea of overthrowing bad government and representation of the people in government.
What is the Enlightenment?
Name one WHS Assistant Principal.
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What is the Bastille?
This is the name of the radical (left) political party of the French Revolution during the National Convention.
What are the Jacobins?
Napoleon came into power through this seizing of power of the government.
What is coup d'etat?
The sugar and coffee colony of Saint Domingue (Haiti) was controlled by this European country during the late 1700s.
What is France?
Mr. Lin is a part owner of this NFL Football team.
What is the Green Bay Packers?
This was the home country of Marie Antoinette, prior to her marriage to King Louis XVI.
What is Austria?
This group of radical, lower-class common people and workers mocked the wealthy aristorcrats who wore these knee breeches.
Who are the sans-culottes?
This was the name of the French naval blockade established during the Napoleonic Wars to damage the British economy.
What is the Continental System?
The revolutions in South America were led mainly by this social class of people in Spanish Colonial society.
What are creoles?
In basketball, a shot that hits the backboard first, without hitting the rim, before it goes into the basket is referred to as this.
What is a bank shot?
This French Palace located outside of Paris began construction under King Louis XIV (14th).
What is Versailles?
This group ruled France during the Terror and tried to establish a "Republic of Virtue".
What is the Committee of Public Safety?
What is legitimacy?
Name of the Venezuelan general who helped to liberate South America from Spanish rule in establishing Gran Colombia.
Who is Simon Bolivar?
This is the most abundant gas in the Earth's atmosphere.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
This was the name of the government that followed the Legislative Assembly, during which King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were executed and a French republic was established.
What is the National Convention?
Also called the Battle of Nations, this military defeat led to the Napoleon being exiled to the island of Elba.
What is the Battle of Leipzig?
This formerly enslaved person became a military general and led the overthrow of the French during the Haitian Revolution.
Who is Toussaint L'Ouverture?
This is the largest bone in the human body.
What is the femur?