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About what percentage of France’s population belonged to the Third Estate?
98%
Which group most strongly embraced the ideals and principles of the Enlightenment
The bourgeoisie
What issue led to the first meeting of the Estates-General in 175 years?
The proposed taxation of the Second Estate
Why did the National Assembly lose the support of many French peasants?
It took away the Catholic Church’s lands and independence
Which estate paid almost all the taxes in the years preceeding the French Revolution?
3 rd Estate
What document stated that “men are born and remain free and equal in rights?”
The Declaration of the Rights of Man
What was the "slogan of the revolution?"
Liberty, equality, brotherhood (fraternity)
What is July 14 th ?
Bastille Day
What issue arose after the king called for the Estates-General to meet?
The number of votes each Estate would get
Which group imposed the Reign of Terror?
The Committee of Public Safety
What does the word plebiscite mean?
A vote of the people
Name 3 of Napoleon’s non-war accomplishments
Napoleonic Code (equal laws), stabilized the economy (equal tax system & natl. bank), lycees (public schools)
What was an important consequence of the Battle of Trafalgar?
Napoleon gave up his plans of invading Britain
What did Great Britain do when France imposed the Continental System on Europe
They created a blockade of their own
What strategy did Czar Alexander I use to defeat Napoleon?
Scorched- earth policy
Person who wrote a strong response to “A Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen” because it did not give the same rights to women that it gave to men.
Olympe de Gouges
This person claimed it was possible to build a “republic of virtue” by means of what came to be known as the Reign of Terror
Maximilien Robespierre
During the Reign of Terror, who was safe from the guillotine?
No one
He was the most influential leader at the Congress of Vienna.
Prince Klemens von Metternich of Austria
This radical revolutionary was fatally stabbed by another revolutionary.
Jean-Paul Marat
Radical group, named for the style of breeches its members wore.
Sans-coulottes
True or False: Klemens von Metternich wanted to create the beginnings of a European democracy at the Congress of Vienna
False
Refers to the nobles who fled France but still hoped to restore the monarchy
Emigres
Why did Napoleon attack Portugal?
To enforce the Continental System
This was invented to further humane goals, though often used in contradiction to such goals.
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