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Chapter 18
France in the Modern Age
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History
7th Grade
02/08/2007

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Hundred Years War
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1337-1453
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Estates-General
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the french version of a parliament
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Huguenots
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French Calvinist Protestants
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John Calvin
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a Protestant leader
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Where did Calvin carry on his work?
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Geneva, Switzerland
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Nearly 1/2 the nobles in France had become Protestants in the mid....
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1500's
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2 French kings that took actions against the Huguenots
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Francis the first and Henry the second
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Synod
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an assembly of representative
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King Henry the second's sons
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Francis II, Charles IX, Henry III
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Catherine D. Medicis
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attempted to rule for her young sons
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Two Protestant leaders:
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Admiral Gaspard D. Coligny & Henry of Bourbon
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The Guise family led what forces
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Catholic forces
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Edict of January
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decreed that Huguenots could worship in public
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Politiques
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politicals
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Rosny
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Henry's most intimate Huguenot advisor
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Edict of Nantes
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Huguenots could live in any towns or the districts of France they chose, but could practice their worship only in specifically designated towns where Protestantism had previously been the prevailing form of worship
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Followed the principle of terretorial toleration allowing the Huguenots freedom of worship only in certain territories
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Edict of Nantes
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Henry IV
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the first Protestant king of France
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The first French king that did not call the states general for help
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Henry IV
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Cardinal Richelieu
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ruled for Marie Medicis & her young son
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Peace of Alais
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Huguenots lost their fortified towns and armies
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Who had one of the longest reigns of any king in history
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Louis 14th
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Louis 14th established the first ______ government
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Bureaucratic
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Bureau
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desk
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Bureaucracy
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government by men who sit at desks
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each council was headed by an.....
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intendant
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bouregeoisie
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the French term for middle class
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aristocracy
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nobles
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Louis XIV instituted...
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policies to encourage industry
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who revoked the Edict of Nantes
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Louis XIV
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what period proved to be almost a new Dark Age for France
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Age of Enlightenment
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some of the great thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment were
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Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Jacques Rousseau
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the persecution of the Huguenots laid the foundation for what
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the foundation for the French Revolution
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Louis XV came to the throne in
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1715
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What are the three estates of France and who belongs to each
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First Estate-was the clergy
Second Estate-was the nobility
Third Estate-was everyone else in France
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the average peasant usually paid about _____ of his annual income in taxes
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half
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the French Revolution began as what
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an aristocratic revolution
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by 1789, the Third Estate included __ of the of the French population
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98%
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the wife of Louis XVI
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Marie Antoinette
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July 14, 1789
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the storming of the Bastille, called Bastille day
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"August 4 Decrees"
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ended the lord's privileges
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National Convention replaced what
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the National assembly
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"Reign of Terror"
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40,000 died
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Maximilien Robespierre
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became the most influential man in the government
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plebiscite
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an election in which the people express their will
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who was Napolean's wife
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Josephine
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who was Napolean declared emperor by and who crowned him emperor
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the pope, and himself
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who withdrew from the Continental System
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Czar Alexander I
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Battle of Leipzig
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also called Battle of Nations
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June 18, 1815
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Napolean met his final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo
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the old French monarchy was reestablished under what French king
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Louis XVIII
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Louis XVIII was suceeded by
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Charles X
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The July Revolution brought who to the French throne
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Louis Philippe
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who won the election because of his name
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Louis Napolean
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1870-1871
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Franco-Prussian War
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