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The French Revolution
French Revolution
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03/10/2011

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A major turning point in Europe political and social history were the institution of the old regime were destroyed and a new order
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refers primarily to the aristocratic, social and political system established in France from (roughly) the 15th century to the 18th century under the late Valois and Bourbon dynasties.the notion of "absolute monarchy" (typified by the king's right to issue lettres de cachet)
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Angcien Regime
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Similar to the American admission governed in by the National Assembly, concerning freedom of speech, what is the addmission called?
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Declaration of the Right of Man
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Invalidating all measurement systems and the birth of the metric system is created by,demanding that all french cleric pledge allegiance to France is?
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National Assembly
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Wanting to nationalize these, where clergy is now paid by the NAT: ASS:
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Civil Const: of the Clergy
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King Louis and his wife Marie,to flee French stop at a town what is these known as?
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Flight to Varennes
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The National Assembly placed the royal family here under house arrest here?
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Tuileries
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Hearing about the arrest of the Royal Family (blank)declared war?
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Prussia and Austria
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Calling on European powers to intervene if Louis XVI of France was threatened, this declaration was intended to serve as a warning to the French revolutionaries not to infringe further on the rights of Louis XVI and to allow his restoration to power.
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Declaration of Pillaitz
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The purpose of the war between French and other royal houses in Europe was?
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return the king back to the throne
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Titles of who were eliminated under the control of the Nat: Ass:?
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Aristocrats
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Everyone is consider these when aristocrats titles are removed?
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Citizens
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Consider loyalty to France one's God is the nation ,replaced religion and the second government in France during the French Revolution was?
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Cult of the Republic
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Considered third government in France, major influences was that of Rousseau and the predecessor of Cult of the Republic?
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Legislative Assembly
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The Royal Family was executed by these?
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Madame La Guillotine
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Guillotine was designed to make execution more what?
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humane
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50,000 people in thirteen months was executed during this time,many that refused to except the authority of the newly appointed National Convention to reform France into a republic government.
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Reign of Terror
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During the Reign of terror, people were guilty by what?
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accusation
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People were executed because of revenge, accusation , and even this?
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typographical error
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After the sans-culottes took King Louis captive force the Legislative Ass: to form a new type of republic government call.Intense distrust of King Louis XVI and the wanting to abolish monarcy to establish a republic goverment, this group excecuted the king.
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national convention
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Dominate force behind the Committee of Public Safety, and becomes a French dictator, becomes the driving force behind The Reign of Terror.
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Maximilian Robespierre
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Robespierre was denounce and consider what? and then executed
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enemy of state
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Enlightened absolutism
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Enlightened monarchs embraced the principles of the Enlightenment, especially its emphasis upon rationality, and applied them to their territories. They tended to allow religious toleration, freedom of speech and the press, and the right to hold private property. Most fostered the arts, sciences, and education.
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A system where a capitalist-merchant would travel around, buying raw materials, delivering them to people who would work on them, and then collecting the finished goods to sell, or typically to ship to another market.
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Cottage industry
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established in January 1793) and assumed its role of protecting the newly established republic against foreign attacks and internal rebellion. As a wartime measure, the Committee - composed at first of nine, and later of twelve members - was given broad supervisory powers over military, judicial, and legislative efforts. Its power peaked under the leadership of Maximilien Robespierre,
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Committee of Public Safety
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was a leading figure in the early stages of the French Revolution and the first President of the Committee of Public Safety
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George Danton
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August 23 1973 Repbulic Army was the largest army ever in Europe, consisting of men,women and children, of the nation, pushed allies back conquering Austrian Nethlands to the North were called
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Nation in arms
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In contemporary France it refers to the concept of a centralized Republic, with power concentrated in the national government, at the expense of local or regional governments.
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Jacobins
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Early in the French Revolution the equality led to question of what to do with the black slaves,coming into power revisited this and in what year did they abolish slavery for the colonies
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Febuary 4 1794
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Acting as the executives, 5 directior were chose by the Counsil of the elders from a list from the Counsil of 500, contending with political enemies from both sides, offten reling on mititary power to maintain power. Consider a time of merchantilism
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The Directory
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An agreement with Napolean and the Catholic chruch that the relifion is welcomed back into france but the land conficated early stays with the peasant.
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Concordat of 1801
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1806-1808 an attempt by Napolean to destroyed Bristian economically, by ceasing goods from reaching European contients
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The Continental System
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Country refusing to accept Napolean's Contiental System, refusing to war with Napolean, retreating into countrysides, burning there crops. what country was this.
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Russia
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is the French civil code, established under Napoléon I in 1804. The code forbade privileges based on birth, allowed freedom of religion, and specified that government jobs go to the most qualified
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Napoleonic Code
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(21 October 1805) was a sea battle fought between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy, during the War of the Third Coalition (August–December 1805) of the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815).
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Battle of Trafalgar
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policy is a military strategy or operational method which involves destroying anything that might be useful to the enemy while advancing through or withdrawing from an area It was most famously used against Napoleon's and Hitler's armies invading Russia.

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Scorched Earth
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The Hundred Days,[2] sometimes known as the Hundred Days of Napoleon or Napoleon's Hundred Days for specificity, marked the period between Emperor Napoleon I of France's return from exile on Elba to Paris on 20 March 1815 and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII on 8 July 1815 (a period of 111 days)
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The Hundred Days
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Napolean was sent to this island after his failure to defeat Russia, culminating in liberation of Europe.
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Exile to Elba
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After Napolean exile, France returned the brother of the excuted King
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King Louis XVIII
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of March 1813 (renewed on November 20, 1815); between the United Kingdom, Austria, Prussia, and Russia, aimed at upholding the settlement following the Napoleonic Wars
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Quadruple Alliance
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An Imperial French army under the command of Emperor Napoleon was defeated by combined armies of the Seventh Coalition, an Anglo-Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington combined with a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard von Blücher
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Battle of Waterloo
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After Napolean's defeat at Waterloo, he was exile to what island where he later dies?
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Island of St Helen
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Anglo-Irish,the Seventh Coalition, an Anglo-Allied, that defeated Napolean at Waterloo, army under the command of,
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Duke of Wellington
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was an English flag officer famous for his service in the Royal Navy, particularly during the Napoleonic Wars
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Lord Nelson
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Spainish Revolution
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a conference of ambassadors of European states chaired by Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, and held in Vienna from September, 1814 to June, 1815.[1] The objective of the Congress was to settle the many issues arising from the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, and the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire.
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Congress of Vienna
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was a German-Austrian politician and statesman. He was one of the most important diplomats of his era.[2] He was a major figure in the negotiations before and during the Congress of Vienna and is considered both a paragon of foreign-policy management and a major figure in the development of diplomatic praxis
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Klemens von Metternich
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is the belief in the importance of liberty and equal rights. support such fundamental ideas as constitutions, liberal democracy, free and fair elections, human rights, capitalism, free trade, and the freedom of religion
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Liberalism
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is a political and social philosophy that promotes the maintenance of traditional institutions and supports, at the most, minimal and gradual change in societySome conservatives seek to preserve things as they are, emphasizing stability and continuity, while others oppose modernism and seek a return to the way things were
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conservatism
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Victorian Age
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exposed conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act
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The Jungle
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German philosopher, sociologist, historian, political economist, political theorist and revolutionary socialist, who developed the socio-political theory of Marxism.became interested in the philosophical ideas of the Young Hegelians. he became a journalist in Cologne, writing for a radical newspaper, the Rheinische Zeitung, where he began to use Hegelian concepts of dialectical materialism to influence his ideas on socialism.
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Karl Marx
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is the science of the general and abstract laws of the development of nature, society, and thought. Its principal features are:it is the philosophical basis of Marxism
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Dialectical materialism
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is a sociopolitical movement that aims for a classless and stateless society structured upon common ownership of the means of production, free access to articles of consumption, and the end of wage labour and private property in the means of production and real estate
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Communism
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is an economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for profit. Income in a Capitalist system takes at least two forms, profit on the one hand and wages on the other.
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Capitalism
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heories about the nature of society and politics, that in their own words, "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles."[3] It also briefly features their ideas for how the capitalist society of the time would eventually be replaced by socialism, and then eventually communism.
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The Communist Manifesto
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was a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer whose improvements to the Newcomen steam engine were fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both the Kingdom of Great Britain and the world.
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James Watt
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is a social class "characterized by their ownership of capital and their related culture.
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Bourgeoisie
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is a term used to identify a lower social class, usually the working class
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Proletariat
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Mercantilism
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is an economic theory which holds that the prosperity of a state is dependent upon its supply of capital; that the global volume of international trade is "unchangeable;" and that one party may benefit only at the expense of another
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s the production of large amounts of standardized products, including and especially on assembly lines.
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Mass production
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was an English naturalist.[I] He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.

He published his theory with compelling evidence for evolution in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species
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Charles Darwin
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introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection. It presented a body of evidence that the diversity of life arose by common descent through a branching pattern of evolution.
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On the Origin of Species
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evolutionary theory to human evolution, and details his theory of sexual selection. The book discusses many related issues, including evolutionary psychology, evolutionary ethics, differences between human races, differences between sexes, the superiority of men to women, and the relevance of the evolutionary theory to society.
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The Descent of Man
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