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| a tax on all things paper, including books, newspapers, cards, legal documents, letters, etc. etc. This made the colonists furious and really started the tension between England and the colonies. |
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| A set a taxes that covered a multitude of things. |
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| A huge tax on tea that was not imported through the British East India Trading Company. This lead to the Boston Tea Party. |
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| Not typical warfare. This included small bands of people jumping out from behind trees, killing a few people, and then running away. |
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| British colonists who were loyal to the crown |
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| British colonists who wanted their separate country. |
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| This treaty ended the Revolutionary War and recognized America as an independent nation. |
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| A Frenchman who helped out with the American Revolution. He came back to France with ideas that helped with the revolution |
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| This idea was held by the Nobles who thought that because they were born into a certain family |
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| A legislative branch that only convened when the king called them. They were made up of the three estates of the three social groups in France |
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| The high middle class. Even though they were much richer, they were still considered stuck in the third estate. |
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| Liberal Political Thought |
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| This was one of France's biggest problems and why the revolution was started. It got so bad that the king called the Estates General, which in a turn of events led to the revolution. |
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| The government body that was formed after the new constitution was written. It is made up of the third estate members from the Estate General. Slowly First and Second Estate members begin to come in as well |
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| An oath taken by the members of the Third Estate after they got locked out of their original meeting place. They said that they would continue to meet until they had written a new constitution. Many think that this was the start of the revolution |
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| Members of the third estate stormed this fortress in Paris. Bastille Day is now celebrated in Paris. The people wanted weapons and there were also prisoners in there. They needed the weapons because they thought that the army was going to attempt to get the National Assembly |
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| A fear that spread throughout the citizens of France. Many people thought that they were going to be attacked by either foreign troops or the nobility because they were vulnerable |
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| Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen |
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| This was adopted by the National Assembly and Louis XVI was forced to accept it. It was all about equality of opportunity and natural law and popular sovereignty. |
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| Civil Constitution of the Clergy |
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| This document made it so that the clergy had to swear a pledge to France before being a member of the clergy. It also let the government take a lot of the land from the Church |
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| After the National Assembly declared a new constitution with a constitutional monarchy, this assembly came into power. |
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| Citizens who worked hard to benefit the country and to make the country better |
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| Citizens who did not benefit their country in any way. |
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| The city in which Louis XVI was caught while he was trying to escape from France. With this act he lost all the trust he had left with the citizens of France |
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| A declaration made by the leaders of Austria and Prussia which basically said not to harm Louis XVI or the royal family. |
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| This group was called by the Paris Commune after they stormed the castle. This was the third legislative assembly during the revolution |
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| This group stormed the castle and killed all the Swiss Guards. They then called the National convention to replace the government |
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| People who were in the third estate and who lived in the city. They were very poor and had labor intensive jobs |
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| Political party who was pretty liberal. They were in the middle. |
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| Way to the left. They were very radical |
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| Committee of Public Safety |
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| Created by the National Convention so that the enemies of the revolution may be removed from society. The 12 men that headed this organization were responsible for the deaths of thousands of people during the Terror |
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| A period of the revolution when many people were killed. The orders to kill people were ordered by the Committee for Public safety. Many were guillotined |
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| During this time period, Robespierre remained in power and kept on killing people who allegedly did not agree with the revolution. |
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| The leader of the Committee of Public safety. He is responsible for ordering the deaths of many people who were killed during the Terror |
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| Notre Dame was renamed this after the Catholic religion was denounced in France |
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| Virtues during the revolution that were held by many were equality and freedom. Even though these were two different things, they both came into play at different times. |
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| Declaration of the Rights of Women and Female Children |
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| Written by Olympe de Gouges, this pamphlet wanted women to have the same rights as men did. |
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| This reaction occurred because nobody liked the Directory. Robespierre was gone, France was doing well in foreign wars, so there was an overhaul of the government |
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| National Legislative Assembly |
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| This legislative assembly made it into the Napoleon era |
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| This was one of the houses during the Directory. It was the lesser one, but it was larger |
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| Another house of the Directory. It was smaller but more important. |
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| This was the government after the radical stage of the revolution. Nobody liked how it worked and it was very corrupt. |
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| After the coup, this was the governmental system that was put into play.Napoleon was the first consulate |
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| This coup overthrew the Directory and got established the Consulate. Napoleon took advantage of the confusion and proclaimed power |
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| Leader of France after the coup in 1799. First he was consulate, then consulate for life, and then emperor. He was a very competent general and is still widely admired for his tactics. |
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| This set of laws kept the ideas of the Revolution and actually put them into a law |
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| This was a treaty between France and Britain . It did not last very long, and war quickly resumed |
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| Spain, Holland, Austria, Prussia, England and Sardinia. All of them tried to suppress the French and were unable to |
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| This was made up of Prussia England Austria and Russia. This Coaition was ended with the Peace of Amiens |
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| Prussia, England, Austria, Russia and Sweden made up this set of allies. |
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| Napoleon's Grand Empire spread far and wide all over Europe. It did not last long, however, because it was too big. |
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| States that had been captured by Napoleon's armies. They were dependent upon France |
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| States that were allied with France |
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| A sea battle in which the British destroyed a combined French and Spanish fleet |
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| An embargo of England that France imposed on the rest of Europe. It failed because Britain found other places to trade |
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| After Napoleon was ousted the first and then the second time, this king came and restored the Bourbon monarchy, which nobody liked |
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| Napoleon's final battle. He lost in great fashion to the Duke of Wellington and was forever exiled to the island of St. Helena |
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| The ability to do whatever you want with your life. |
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| Everyone is equal. It is different than liberty because in this system people were not allowed to get ahead of one another |
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