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| Form of currency during the French Revolution. Backed off of confiscated church lands. Quickly inflated to such a high number that it was discontinued and ceased to be used as currency. |
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| (1729-1797) "father of modern conservatism" He is mainly remembered for his support of the cause of the American Revolutionaries, and for his later opposition to the French Revolution. The most elaborate critic of the French revolution. he predicted it would end in anarchy and tyranny and he wanted england to go to war wit the french. |
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| The most famous and influential political club in the development of the French Revolution. Initially moderate, the club later became notorious for its implementation of the Reign of Terror. Robespierre was part of this club and it was disbanded soon after his execution. |
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| "The mountain" aka the Montagnards |
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| a political group, whose members, called , sat on the highest benches in the Assembly. The term, which was first used during the session of the Legislative Assembly. These men where executed during the reign of terror for basically scaring Robespierre. |
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| One of the best-known and most influential figures of the French Revolution. He largely dominated the Committee of Public Safety and was instrumental in the period of the Revolution commonly known as the Reign of Terror, which ended with his arrest and execution in 1794. |
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| One of the best-known and most influential figures of the French Revolution. He largely dominated the Committee of Public Safety and was instrumental in the period of the Revolution commonly known as the Reign of Terror, which ended with his arrest and execution in 1794. |
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| (r.1774-1791) French King during the French Revolution. Was executed in 1791. He failed as a monarch because he never could make the hard decisions and because he bent easily to the will of others. |
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| Radical militants of the lower classes; typically urban laborers. Though ill-clad and ill-equipped, they made up the bulk of the Revolutionary army during the early years of the French Revolutionary Wars. The held the political ideas of popular democracy, social and economic equality, affordable food, rejection of the Free market and free-market economy, and zealous pursuit of perceived counter-revolutionaries and political enemies. |
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| Proclamation issued by the commander of the Prussian/Austrian army which held that if the Royal family was harmed, Paris would be destroyed and no mercy would be given. The revolutionaries took this as a sign of war. This caused them to storm the Tuileries Palace, to slaughter the swiss guard and to arrest the Royal family and put them on trail. |
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| First Emperor of France, this guy needs no definition, he was boss. He was exiled twice. |
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| A conference of ambassadors of European states chaired by Metternich, and held in Vienna. The objective of this meeting was to settle the many issues arising from the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, and the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire. This objective resulted in the redrawing of the continent's political map, establishing the boundaries of France, the Duchy of Warsaw, the Netherlands, the states of the Rhine. This was the congress that decided what to do with france after the defeated Napoleon had ravaged Europe. |
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| Refers to the period of which Napoleon returned from his exile at Elba. He quickly gathered his troops and was finally defeated at waterloo. |
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| A revolt during the French Revolution against the Reign of terror. This ended in the execution of Robespierre. This started the Beginning of the Directory. |
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| (1807)Ended the War of the Fourth Coalition and brought Russia into the continental system. |
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| Civil Constitution of the clergy |
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| Subordinated the Roman Catholic Church in France to the French government. Made clergy employees of the french gov. However, if the clergy did not made a vow to be loyal only to the state, they were imprisoned. |
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| Declaration of the Rights of Man |
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| A fundamental document of the French Revolution, defining the individual and collective rights of all the estates of the realm as universal. Influenced by the doctrine of "natural right", the rights of man are held to be universal: valid at all times and in every place, pertaining to human nature itself. |
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| The legislature of France from 1791 to 1792. It provided the focus of political debate and revolutionary law-making between the periods of the National Constituent Assembly and of the National Convention. It was driven by two opposing groups, one favored a constitutional monarchy. the other wanted democracy and claimed that no king could be trusted. This group called for more revolutionary actions and were known as the Jacobins. |
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| This simplifyed and codifyed the laws of france. This is still the outline of french legal system today. |
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| Swore not to leave until they had written a new constitution for france. |
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| The government of France between the fall of the Directory in the coup of 18 Brumaire in 1799 until the start of the Napoleonic Empire in 1804. Made up of three "consuls" Napoleon being the most important/powerful |
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| A body of five men that held executive power in France following the Convention and preceding the Consulate. The coup of brumaire was created by the Abbé Sieyès and taken over by napoleon who created the Consulate. |
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| a period of development in Britain between the 17th century and the end of the 19th century, which saw an epoch-making increase in agricultural productivity and net output. I primary cause can be put in the Enclosure movement. |
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| ends the traditional rights such as mowing meadows for hay, or grazing livestock on common land formerly held in the open field system. Once enclosed, these uses of the land become restricted to the owner, and it ceases to be common land. |
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| A period from the 18th to the 19th century where major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and technology had a profound effect on the social, economic and cultural conditions of the times. It began in the United Kingdom |
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| Reasons why the british were the first to industrialize |
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The british had:
good roads, global trade, good infrastructure, and naval power |
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