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Unit 3, Activity 1, Monarchs of Europe and Political Revolutions Vocabulary
Chapter 9 Vocabulary & Important People
Use Glossary, Index, & Chapter 7 in Text (pages 214 to 243)
Definition
Key Term
Old Regime
Estates-General
Jacobin
Reign of Terror
Coup d’etat
Napoleonic Code
Continental System
Estate
King Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
National Assembly
Tennis Court Oath
Great Fear
Legislative Assembly
Émigré
Sans-Culotte
Guillotine
Maximilen Robespierre
The political & social system that existed in France before the French
Revolution
An assembly of representatives from all three of the estates, or social classes in
France.
French radical political organization that were heavily involved with the
changes to the French government.
Period from mid-1793 to mid-1794, when Maximilien Robespierre ruled
France nearly as a dictator & thousands of political figures & ordinary citizens
were executed.
A sudden seizure of political power in a nation.
A comprehensive & uniform system of laws established for France by
Napoleon.
Napoleon’s policy of preventing trade between Great Britain & continental
Europe, intended to destroy Great Britain’s economy.
One of the three social classes in France before the French Revolution – the
first estate consisting of the clergy; second of the nobility; & third was of the
rest of the population.
Weak and easily bored with state affairs. Spent most of time in physical
activities & hunting. Was the last monarch for France.
Member of the Austrian Royal Family, French monarch, & unpopular with
French due to massive spending on clothing, gambling, & jewels.
French congress established by representatives of the 3rd estate on June 17,
1789. To enact laws & reforms in the name of the French people.
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.
A wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the
storming of the Bastille in 1789.
French congress with the power to create laws & approve declarations of war,
established by the Constitution of 1791.
A person who leaves his native country for political reasons, like the nobles &
others who fled France during the peasant uprisings of the French Revolution.
In the French Revolution, a radical group made up of Parisian wage-earners &
small shopkeepers who wanted a greater voice in government, lower prices, &
an end to food shortages.
A machine for beheading people, used as a means of execution during the
French Revolution.
Jacobin leader who wanted to build a “republic of virtue” by wiping out every
trace of France’s past. Governed France like a dictator.
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Unit 3, Activity 1, Monarchs of Europe and Political Revolutions Vocabulary
Napoleon Bonaparte
Plebiscite
Lycee
Concordat
Battle of Trafalgar
Blockade
Guerrilla
Peninsular War
Scorched-Earth Policy
Waterloo
Hundred Days
Congress of Vienna
Klemens von
Metternich
Balance of Power
Legitimacy
Holy Alliance
Concert of Europe
Jean-Paul Marat
One of the world’s greatest military geniuses. In four years he rose from
French officer to the emperor/dictator of France.
A direct voice in which a country’s people have the opportunity to approve or
reject a proposal.
A government run public school in France.
A formal agreement – especially one between the Pope and the government,
dealing with control of Church affairs.
An 1805 naval battle in which Napoleon’s forces were defeated by a British
fleet under the command of Horatio Nelson.
Use of troops or ships to prevent commercial traffic from entering or leaving a
city or region.
A member of a loosely organized fighting force that makes surprise attacks on
enemy troops occupying his or her country.
A conflict, lasting from 1808-1813, in which Spanish rebels, with the aid of
British forces, fought to drive Napoleon’s French troops out of Spain.
The practice of burning crops and killing livestock during wartime so that they
enemy cannot live off of the land.
Village in Belgium where the British and Prussians fought Napoleon. The
French were defeated & ended Napoleon’s last bid for power.
Brief period during 1815 when Napoleon made his last bid for power,
deposing the French King and again becoming the emperor of France.
A series of meetings in 1814-1815, during which the European leaders sought
to establish long-lasting peace & security after the defeat of Napoleon.
A prince who was also the foreign minister of Austria. He was the most
influential leader among those at the Congress of Vienna.
A political situation in which no one nation is powerful enough to pose a threat
to others.
The hereditary right of a monarch to rule.
A league of European nations formed by the leaders of Russia, Austria, &
Prussia after the Congress of Vienna.
A series of alliances among European nations in the 19th century, devised by
Prince Klemens von Metternich to prevent the outbreak of revolutions.
French revolutionary writer who stirred up violence in Paris. He was
eventually stabbed to death.
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