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| Government should protect people's natural rights | ||
| French enlightened thinkers | ||
| collection of thoughts and essays written by the philosophes | ||
| edited the Encyclopedia | ||
| Most famous of the philosophes, used wit as a weapon. Targeted corrupt officials and idle aristocrats. Battled inequality, injustice, and superstition | ||
| Believed people in their natural state were generally good. Felt natural innocence was corrupted by the evils of society. | ||
| Argued that women were being excluded and fought for a woman's natural right. Her arguments were harshly ridiculed and sharply condemned. | ||
| Written by Montesquieu, controversial political book foreshadowing the French Revolution | ||
| studied governments of Europe, published the Spirit of the Laws, he felt the best way to protect liberty was to separate powers. | ||
| Anything before 1789, under the rule of Louis XV and XVI | ||
| Louis XVI's wife. She was from Austria. Queen of France | ||
| anti-change condemned the enlightenment, first estate | ||
| Hated absolutism, second estate | ||
| wanted the upper classes to be taxed, mostly middle class people | ||
| Population was extremely poor (besides 1st & 2nd estates), 3rd estate were only ones who had to pay taxes, jobs were limited | ||
| Financial adviser to Louis XVI; encouraged Louis to tax the top 2 estates | ||
| Clergy had 300 voters; Nobles had 300 voters; Third Estate had 600 voters. Each Estate got only 1 vote overall. Clergy and Nobles always outvoted the Third Estate. | ||
| The concerns and issues each estate had for Louis to look over | ||
| Stated that the 3rd estate was not going to disband until a constitution is written. | ||
| Storming of the Bastille, A large angry mob assembled in search of gunpowder and prisoners that were taken by the king. Paris seized the spotlight at national assembly meeting, and rumors spread that royal troops were going to occupy the capitol | ||
| Tales of attacks on villages and towns spread and panic arose. Rumors showed that government troops were seizing crops | ||
| Fought with George Washington; aristocratic hero of two worlds, headed national guard (royal troops of France) | ||
| red, white, and blue symbol that meant you were for the revolution | ||
| First step to a French Constitution, declared that all men had equal rights | ||
| women demand bread and to see the king | ||
| Louis and Marie dress as servants and try to flee but are caught because they are leaving in the royal carriage | ||
| left is radical, right is conservative; first time the left-right system was used | ||
| Nobles and Clergy who flee France and go to the Austrian Netherlands | ||
| The war between French Revolutionaries and European monarchs moved to the battlefield | ||
| Citizens formed mobs and attacked and killed nobles and clergy | ||
| Song that played as the citizens marched | ||
| A new legislative branch which gave all men the right to vote | ||
| 12 member committee that tried to save the Revolution | ||
| an influential "friend of the people" during the revolution who was killed in his medicinal bath by being stabbed in the back | ||
| leader of the committee of public safety, promoted the revolution and led the people | ||
| Revolutionary courts conducted trials and about 40,000 people died | ||
| 5 man group, middle class and professionals held most of the power during this time | ||
| Napoleon's place of birth | ||
| Napoleon invaded this place to cut the British supply line to India | ||
| Found this, which led to the deciphering of hieroglyphics | ||
| Napoleon's first wife | ||
| Austria, Prussia, Britain, and Russia | ||
| Napoleon wanted to defeat Britain so, the continent of Europe had to boycott British goods. | ||
| Prussia, Russia, Britain, and even Austria (his wife's father Francis I was leader there) | ||
| time from Napoleon's comeback to his defeat at Waterloo | ||
| The place Napoleon was exiled to the first time | ||
| Second place Napoleon was exiled to, where he died | ||
| Napoleon's brother, the King of Spain | ||
| He came to crown Napoleon as emperor and was shot as he was putting the crown on Napoleon's head, so Napoleon took the crown and crowned himself which was very controversial. | ||
| Napoleon's second wife; she was from Austria | ||
| tsar of Russia, who withdrew from the continental system (traded with Britain) | ||
| came to the throne after Napoleon was exiled (He was Louis XVI's brother) | ||
| Napoleon staged this to overthrow the directory and established the French Consulate; Napoleon became the first consul |
