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Name for the three classes of french society
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Estates
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The people had none of these before the revolution
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individual rights
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the traditional political and social system of france before the revolution
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old regime
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comitee that directed the army
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comitee of public safety
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the wave of killing from 1793-1794
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reign of terror
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clergy and nobles did not pay these
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taxes
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foreign event that strongly influenced french thinking
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american revolution
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intellectual movement that strongly influenced french thinking about reform
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enlightenment
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method of getting soldiers for the army
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draft
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instrument used for execution
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gullotine
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class of people most in favor of change
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middle class
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foreign war that drained the french treasury in the 1770s
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american revolutionary war
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what the 3rd estae declared themselves to be in 1789
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national assembly
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vast territory that napoleon sold in 1803 to raise money for his army
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louisiana
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fate of louis XVI and his wife
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beheaded
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wife of the french king, charming and irresponsible
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marie antoinette
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body called to meet for the first time in 175 years
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estates-general
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pledge taken by the 3rd estste to write a constitution
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tennis court oath
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term for napoleons blockade of the british isle
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continental system
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gov. of 5 directors under the 3rd constitution
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the directory
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members of the 1st estate
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clergy
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french king before and during the revolution
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louis XVI
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type of gov set up by the constitution of 1791
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constitutional monarchy
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parisian fort taken by a mob on July 14, 1789
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bastille
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leader of extreme radicals assassinated in his bath
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marat
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members of the 2nd estate
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nobles
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number of votes each estate had in the estates-general
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one
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the national assembly took away this institutions land
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church
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slogan of the revolution
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liberty, equality, and fraternity
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the 2 leaders of the radical Jacobins
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robespierre and Danton
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members of the 3rd estate
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everyone else
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site of the costly french court
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Versailles
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document that stated the revolutions principles
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declaration of the rights of man
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source of gov authority, according to the Declaration
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the people
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2 countries that invaded France in 1789
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Austria and Prussia
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Type of ruler Napoleon was from 1799-1814
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dictator
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Napoleon's new title from 1804 on
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emperor
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new, uniform system of French civil laws
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Napoleonic Code
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huge eastern European country Napoleon invaded in 1812
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Russia
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Natural phenomenon that helped defeat Napoleon in Russia
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severe winter
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this body had no power under Napoleon
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Legislature
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people napoleon often placed on the thrones of conquered states
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his relatives
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the 2 revolutionary rights napoleon took away from the people
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freedom of press, speech
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napoleons final defeat
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waterloo
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napoleons most severe military disaster, 1812-1813
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retreat from moscow
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napoleon concentrated authority to create this type of govt
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strong central govt
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napoleon fought british forces in this african country
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Egypt
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Napoleons conquests spread ideas of this movement throughout Europe
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French Revolution
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Napoleon's conquests promoted the growth of this feeling
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Nationalism
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