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| The political and social system that existed in France before the French Revolution |
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| One of the 3 social classes in France before the French Revolution - the 1st Estate consisting of the clergy; the 2nd Estate, of the nobility; and the 3rd Estate, of the rest of the population |
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| A French congress established by represenatatives of the 3rd Estate on June 17, 1789, to enact laws and reforms in the name of the French people |
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| A pledge made by the members of France's National Assembly in 1789, in which they vowed to continue meeting until they had drawn up a new constitution |
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| A wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille in 1789 |
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| An assembly of representatives from all three of the estates, or social classes, in France |
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| A French congress with the power to create laws and approve declarations of war, established by the Conststitution of 1791 |
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| A person who leaves their native country for political reasons, like the nobles and others who fled France during the peasant uprisings of the French Revolution |
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| In the French Revolution, a radical group made up of Parisian wage-earners and small shopkeepers who wanted a greater voice in government, lower prices and an end to food shortages |
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| A machine for beheading people, used as a means of execution during the French Revolution |
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| The period, from mid - 1793 to mid - 1794, when Maximillien Robespierre ruled France nearly as a dictator and thousands of political figures and ordinary citizens were executed |
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| A sudden seizure of political power in a nation |
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| A direct vote in which a country's people have the opportunity to approve or reject a proposal |
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| A government-run public school in France |
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| A formal agreement - especially one between the the pope and a government, dealing with the control of Church affairs |
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| A comprehensive and uniform system of laws established for France by Napoleon |
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| An 1805 naval battle in which Napoleon's forces were defeated by a British fleet under the command of Horatio Nelson |
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| The use of troops or ships to prevent commercial traffic from entering or leaving a city or region |
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| Napoleon's policy of preventing trade between Great Britian and continental Europe, intended to destroy Great Britian's economy |
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| A member of a loosley organized fighting force that makes surprise attacks on enemy troops occupying his or her country |
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| A conflict lasting from 1808 to 1813, in which Spanish rebels, with the aid of British forces, fought to drive Napoleon's French troops out of Spain |
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| The practice of burning crops and killing livestock during wartime so that the enemy cannot live off of the land |
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| The brief period during 1815 when Napoleon made his last bid for power, deposing the French king and again becoming emperor of France |
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| A series of meetings between 1814-1815, during which the European leaders sought to establish long-lasting peace and security after the defeat of Napoleon |
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| A political situation in which no one nation is powerful enough to pose a threat to others |
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| The hereditary right of a monarch to rule |
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| A league of European nations formed by the leaders of Russia, Austria, and Prussia after the Congress of Vienna |
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| A series of alliances among European nations in the 19th century, devised by Prince Klemens von Metternich to prevent the outbreak of revolutions |
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