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Old Regime
Estates
Third Estate
Tax System
King Louis XVI
Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyes
Tennis Court Oath
Bastile Day
The social and political system in use in France in the 1770s Has been in place since the Middle Ages
OLD REGIME
Third Make up 98 percent of the population
Bourgeoisie Group that most strongly embraced the ideals and principles of the
enlightenment
THIRD ESTATE
Spokesman for the Third Estate (Not a member) Recommended that it’s delegates should name themselves the
National Assembly Suggested that they pass laws and make reforms in the name of the
French people
EMMANUEL-JOSEPH SIEYES
A pledge by the Third Estate to continue meeting (after they were forced to find a new meeting place) until they had drawn up a new constitution.
TENNIS COURT OATH
WHAT EVENTS SIGNIFIED THE END OF THE ABSOLUTE MONARCHY AND THE BEGINNING OF REPRESENTATIVE
GOVERNMENT
Declaration of the rights of man
Olympe de Gouges
National Assembly
Legislative Assembly
Factions
Émigrés
San-culottes
Jean-Paul Marat
Wrote a strong response to “A Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen” Did not give the same rights to women that it gave to men
OLYMPE DE GOUGES
Lost support of many French peasants Took away the Catholic Church’s lands and independence
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
Right wing Describes the most conservative members of the Legislative
AssemblyLeft wing
Describes the most radical members of the Legislative Assembly
FACTIONS
Invented to further humane goals Often used in contradiction to such goals
Who was safe during the Reign of Terror? No one
GUILLOTINE
Claimed it was possible to build a “republic of virtue” Came to be known as the Reign of Terror
MAXIMILIEN ROBESPIERRE
WHAT MIGHT HAVE CAUSED THE FRENCH PEOPLE TO EMBRACE NAPOLEON AS EMPEROR SO SOON AFTER FIGHTING A REVOLUTION THAT RID THEM OF A KING?
Napoleon’s attempt to make Europe more self-sufficient Britain’s reaction
Organized it’s own blockade
CONTINENTAL SYSTEM
Napoleon Defeated by King Frederick William III of Prussia and Czar
Alexander I of Russia Exiled to Elba
DEFEATS
What aspect of Napoleon’s character or personality do you think was most responsible for the collapse of his empire? Explain?
Congress of Vienna
Prince Klemens von Metternich
Congress of Vienna
Holy Alliance
Congress of Vienna
Main goal of participants Establish security and stability for the nations of Europe
CONGRESS OF VIENNA
Foreign minister of AustriaMost influential leader at the Congress of Vienna
PRINCE KLEMENS VON METTERNICH
Accomplishments Reinstating the royal families dethroned by Napoleon Creating a balance of power among European nations Surrounding France with strong neighboring countries
CONGRESS OF VIENNA
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