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| 270570465 | The Spirit of the Laws | Book written by Montesquieu which was a comparative study of republics, monarchies, and despotism | 0 | |
| 270570466 | Congress of Vienna | conservative, reactionary meeting, led by prince metternich, restore europe to prerevolution time | 1 | |
| 270570467 | 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. (p. 595) | 2 | |
| 270570468 | Simon Bolivar | Venezuelan statesman who led the revolt of South American colonies against Spanish rule | 3 | |
| 270570469 | Estates General | The French national assembly summoned in 1789 to remedy the financial crisis and correct abuses of the ancien regime. | 4 | |
| 270570470 | Olympe de Gouges | french journalist who demanded equal rights for women | 5 | |
| 270570471 | John Locke | English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience (1632-1704) | 6 | |
| 270570472 | Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette | queen and king during the French Revolution, Marie was Austrian (French hate Austrians) lived a spoiled, lavish lifestyle when the rest of France was starving | 7 | |
| 270570473 | Maximilien Robespierre | "The incorruptable;" the leader of the bloodiest portion of the French Revolution. He set out to build a republic of virtue. | 8 | |
| 270570474 | Napoleon Bonaparte | French general who became emperor of the French (1769-1821) | 9 | |
| 270570475 | Declaration of the Rights of Man | Statement of fundamental political rights adopted by the French National Assembly at the beginning of the French Revolution. | 10 | |
| 270570476 | Ancien Regime | a political and social system that no longer governs (especially the system that existed in France before the French Revolution) | 11 | |
| 270570477 | National AsJacobins | -kills king -committee of public safety | 12 | |
| 270570478 | Directory | Group of five men who served as liaisons between Robespierre and the Assembly. Overthrown by Napoleon. | 13 | |
| 270570479 | 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. | 14 |