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| Belief that people could apply the scientific method and use reason to logically explain human nature; the philosophical movement of the eighteenth century. |
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| Characteristic of the Enlightenment; rose from the belief that truth can be arrived at solely by reason. |
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| Thinkers or philosophers of the Enlightenment. |
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| Gathering of the social, political, and cultural elite in France. |
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| Governmental principle based on just laws and on a government created by and subject to the will of the people. |
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| System of government in which absolute monarchs ruled according to the principles of the Enlightenment. |
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| City-dwelling middle class in France. |
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| During the French Revolution, a noble who fled France. |
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| Administrative district of France |
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| Person who does not want to change existing conditions. |
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| Person who wants far-reaching changes. |
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| During the French Revolution, a person who had no extreme views and sided with conservatives and radicals, depending on the situation. |
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| Universal Manhood Suffrage |
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| French election process that allowed every man to vote regardless of whether he owned property. |
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| Draft adopted in France that made men from 18 to 45 years of age liable for military service. |
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| Fight against the regular French army and the Revolution in the western part of France. |
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| Seizure of power by force. |
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| Procedure used by Napoleon to submit the constitution of his new government to the people for a vote. |
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| Love of one's country rather than love of a native region. |
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| Practice of burning or destroying crops and everything else that might be of value to an enemy. |
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| Policy stating that all former ruling families should be restored to their thrones. |
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| Extremist who not only opposes change, but generally would like to turn the clock back to the way things were before. |
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| Movement that extended the principles of the American and French revolutions; stressed individual rights and the rule of law rather than the rule of a monarch. |
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