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world history chapter 18
the french revolution and napoleon
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History
9th Grade
02/22/2012

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ancien regime
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old order
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estates
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everyone in france was divided up into social classes
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bourgeoisie
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middle class
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deficit spending
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this occurs when the government spends more then what it takes in
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Louis XIV
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was well meaning but weak and indecisive
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Jacques Necker
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a financial expert for louis XVI
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estates general
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th elegislative body consisting of three estates
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cahiers
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notebooks
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tennis court oath
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oath made on a tennis court
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Bastille
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a grim medieval fortress used as prison
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factions
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dissenting groups
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marquis de lafayette
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the aristocrat "hero of two worlds"
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olympe de gouges
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a journalist demanded equal rights in her declaration of the rights of women
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Marie Antoinette
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Louis XVI's wifes. was exiled
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emigres
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nobles clergy and others who had fled France
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sans-culottes
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pushed the revolution into more radical action
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republic
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government ruled by elected representatives instead of a monarch
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jacobins
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middle class lawyers or intellectuals
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suffrage
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the right to vote
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Robspierre
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ashrew lawyer, invented the guillotine
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Reign of terror
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lasted from September 1793 to July 1794
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guillotine
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the engine of the reign of terror, sliced heads ending life instantly
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napoleon
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a popular military hero who won a series of victories, became the king of france
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nationalism
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a strong feeling of pride and devotionto ones country
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