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| 272561129 | The spirit of the laws | This work by Montesquieu called for a separation of powers and heavily influenced the formation of American government | 0 | |
| 272561130 | Congress of Vienna | conservative, reactionary meeting, led by prince metternich, restore europe to prerevolution time | 1 | |
| 272561131 | Revolutions of 1848 | Democratic and nationalist revolutions that swept across Europe. The monarchy in France was overthrown. In Germany, Austria, Italy, and Hungary the revolutions failed. ( | 2 | |
| 272561132 | Simon Bolivar | Venezuelan statesman who led the revolt of South American colonies against Spanish rule | 3 | |
| 272561133 | Estates General | The French national assembly summoned in 1789 to remedy the financial crisis and correct abuses of the ancien regime. | 4 | |
| 272561134 | Olympe De Gouges | A proponent of democracy, she demanded the same rights for French women that French men were demanding for themselves. In her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen (1791), she challenged the practice of male authority and the notion of male-female inequality. She lost her life to the guillotine due to her revolutionary ideas. | 5 | |
| 272561135 | John Locke | English philosopher who advocated the idea of a "social contract" in which government powers are derived from the consent of the governed and in which the government serves the people; also said people have natural rights to life, liberty and property. | 6 | |
| 272561136 | Louis XVI | king of France from 1774 to 1792 | 7 | |
| 272561137 | Marie Antoinette | queen of France (as wife of Louis XVI) who was unpopular | 8 | |
| 272561138 | Napolean Bonaparte | French emperor & Leader of the French Army during French Revolution | 9 | |
| 272561139 | Declarations of the Rights of Man | natural rights of all people and the rights of the French possessed as citizens | 10 | |
| 272561140 | Ancien Regime | a political and social system that no longer governs (especially the system that existed in France before the French Revolution) | 11 | |
| 272561141 | National Assembly | French Revolutionary assembly (1789-1791). Called first as the Estates General, the three estates came together and demanded radical change. It passed the Declaration of the Rights of Man in 1789. (p. 585) | 12 | |
| 272561142 | Jacobins | Radical republicans during the French Revolution. They were led by Maximilien Robespierre from 1793 to 1794. | 13 | |
| 272561143 | Directory | The new government set up by the revolutionary leaders in France. | 14 | |
| 272561144 | Civil Code | Napoleonic Code; this code preserved most of the gains of the revolution by recognizing the principle of the equality of all citizens before the law, and ect. | 15 | |
| 272561145 | Maximilion Robespierre | An ambitious lawyer from northern France, he served in the National Assembly, gaining some notoriety with his calls for universal male suffrage and the abolition of capital punishment and slavery in the colonies. Obsessed with creating a new political structure, he argues that virtue must be combined with terror. Even if they condemn his methods, most historians consider him sincere in his beliefs; indeed he earns the nickname "The Incorruptible" in his lifetime. He wished to create a new deistic civic religion, which culminates with a Festival of the Supreme Being in June 1794. He single handily cause the radical phase of the Revolution. | 16 |
