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| 1541360102 | 3 Estates | Social Classes in France | 1 | |
| 1541360103 | 1st Estate | the clergy of the church; 1% of population; owned 10% of the land; paid no taxes | 2 | |
| 1541360104 | 2nd Estate | nobility; 2% of the population; paid little taxes; collected dues; land ownership when to the eldest son | 3 | |
| 1541360105 | 3rd Estate | everybody else; paid most of the taxes and had the least amount of property | 4 | |
| 1541360106 | Louis XVI | king of France that was beheaded during the revolution | 5 | |
| 1541360107 | Tennis Court Oath | never separate and to meet whenever possible to create a fair constitution | 6 | |
| 1541360108 | Storming of the Bastille | 800 protesters; demand guns and ammunition; troops open fire; prison is stormed | 7 | |
| 1541360109 | July 14, 1789 | Beginning of the French Revolution (date) | 8 | |
| 1541360110 | Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (DoRoMAC) | document that gave the French men their basic rights | 9 | |
| 1541360111 | What was the slogan of the French Revolution? | liberty, equality, and fraternity | 10 | |
| 1541360112 | March on Versailles | the event where a group of women demanded bread and kidnapped King Louis XIV | 11 | |
| 1541360113 | Committee of Public Safety | 12 man committee that was said that the only way liberty could be achieved was for men to lose their heads; led by Maximilien Robespierre | 12 | |
| 1541360114 | Robespierre | leader of Committee of Public safety; executed in 1794; end of reign of terror | 13 | |
| 1541360115 | Reign of Terror | period of time when many people died; supposed to be about liberty, but it's just bloodshed; ended with Maximilian's execution | 14 | |
| 1541360116 | Napoleonic Code | Comprehensive laws that was his systems of laws that created fairness in France; men are equal | 15 | |
| 1541360117 | Why was Great Britain able to resist France? | through their navy and the fact that they are an island; (Britain won the battle of Trafalgar, which was the most important battle. The British commander split the French fleet and captured and destroyed them. This had two major results. First, it ensured the supremacy of England navy and it forced Napoleon give up his plans of invading Britain.) | 16 | |
| 1541360118 | Blockade | the action of blocking the allowance of goods from a certain place to come into your country; France said no one could trade with England (Continental System) | 17 | |
| 1541360119 | guerilla warfare | the style of battle that consisted of hit and run; shoot and leave; no known enemy. | 18 | |
| 1541360120 | Explain how Russia was able to defeat Napoleon. | Nearly all of the Napoleon's 400,000 troops sent on a campaign in Russia died, most from hunger and the cold of the Russian winter; Left with 100,000 troops | 19 | |
| 1541360121 | Congress of Vienna | the meeting between the countries that defeated Napoleon; they wanted to restore the balance that existed before Revolution | 20 | |
| 1541360122 | Goals of Congress of Vienna | to make sure France never got as powerful as it was with Napoleon as its leader and to restore all monarchies and the balance of power | 21 | |
| 1541360123 | Great Terror | Last few months of the Reign of Terror | 22 | |
| 1541360124 | Napoleon | Great military leader who eventually crowns himself emperor | 23 | |
| 1541360125 | Louis XVIII | King of France placed on the throne by the Congress of Vienna. | 24 | |
| 1541360126 | Significance of tearing down the Bastille | literally tearing down the past and getting rid of the old rulers and their ways. | 25 |
