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APEH French Revolution
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10th Grade
01/05/2014

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Ancien Regime
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(Old Regime); France prior to the French Revolution
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Banalities
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Fees that peasants were obligated to pay landlords for the use of the village mill, bakeshop and winepress
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Bastille
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The political prison and armory stormed on July 14, 1789, by Parisian city workers alarmed by the king's concentration of troops at Versailles
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Cahier de doleances
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List of grievances that each Estate drew up in preparation for the summoning of the Estates-General in 1789
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Capitation
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A head or poll tax paid for each person
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Code Napoleon
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The codification and condensation of laws assuring legal equality and uniformity in France
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Committee of Public Safety
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The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France, conducted foreign policy, and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795
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Concordat of 1801
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Napoleon's arrangement with Pope Pius VII to heal religious division in France with a united Catholic church under bishops appointed by the government
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Continental System
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Napoleon's efforts to block foreign trade with England by forbidding importation of British goods into Europe
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Corvees
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Roadwork; an obligation of peasants to landowners
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Coup d'etat
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Sudden overthrow of those in power, usually enacted with military force
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Declaration of Pillnitz (1791)
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1791; Austria and Prussia agreed to intervene in France to end the revolution with the unanimous agreement of the great powers
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Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (1789)
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August 27, 1789; Document that embodied the liberal revolutionary ideals and general principles of the philosophes' writings
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Directory (1795-1799)
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1795-1799; The five-man executive committee that ruled France in its own interests as a republic after Robespierre's execution and prior to Napoleon's coming to power
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Estates General
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The French national assembly summoned in 1789 by Louis XVI to remedy the financial crisis and correct abuses of the ancient regime.
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Great Fear
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The panic and insecurity that struck French peasants in the summer of 1789 and led to their widespread destruction of manor houses and archives
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Jacobins
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The dominant group in the National Convention in 1793 led by Robespierre who replaced the Girondists
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Law of the maximum
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The fixing of prices on bread and other essentials under Robespierre's rule
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Levee en masse
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The creation under the Jacobins, of a citizen army with support from young and old, heralding the emergence of modern warfare
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Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
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(1769-1821); Consul and later emperor of the French (1799-1815), who established several of the reforms of the French Revolution during his dictatorial rule
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Night of August 4, 1789
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Date of the declaration by liberal noblemen of the National Assembly at a secret meeting to abolish the feudal regime in France
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Parlement
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Law court staffed by nobles that could register or refuse to register a king's edict
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Peninsular War (1808-1813)
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1808-1813; Napoleon's long-drawn-out war with Spain
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Robespierre (1758-1794)
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1758-1794; Jacobin leader during the Reign of Terror (1793-1794)
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Sans culottes
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A reference to Parisian workers who wore loose-fitting trousers rather than the tight-fitting breeches worn by aristocratic men
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Taille
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A tax levied on the value of a peasant's land or wealth
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Tennis Court Oath (June 20, 1789)
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June 20, 1789; Declaration mainly by members of the Third Estate not to disband until they had drafted a constitution for France
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Treaty of Tilsit (1807)
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1807; Agreement between Napoleon and Czar Alexander I in which Russia became an ally of France and Napoleon took over the lands of Prussia west of the Elbe as well as the Polish provinces
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Vingtieme
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A tax on income paid chiefly by peasants
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