History ch. 7
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- hundred days
- napoleon ruled after he escaped the island in south atlantic
- emigres
- nobles and others who had fled france
- congress of vienna
- a series of meetings in vienna
- guerillas
- bands of peasant fighters
- blockade
- a forcible closing of ports
- Klemens von Metternich
- by far the most influential of representatives was this foreign minister of Austria
- Bastille
- a paris prison
- guillotine
- a machine that satisfied many needs( it was efficient, humane, and democratic)
- Estates
- under the old regime, the people of France were divided into three large social classes
- waterloo
- the place where the british army and the prussian army forces attacked the french
- Great Fear
- a wave of senseless panic
- reign of terror
- anyone that dissagreed
- Continental system
- it was to make continental europe more self-sufficient
- Maximilien Robespierre
- Jacobin leader, set out to build a "republic of virtue"
- coup d'etat
- "blow to the state"
- legislative assembly
- they make the laws
- estates-general
- an assembly of representatives from all three estates
- Old Regime
- the social and political system of France
- plebiscite
- vote of the people, held to approve a new constitution
- scorched-earth policy
- this involved burning grain fields and slaughtering livestock to leave nothing for the enemy to eat
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- was known for his small stature and thick Corsican accent, his parents sent him to military school at nine years of age, he finished school and became a lieutenant in the artillery
- balance of power
- it was a split power equally balanced across the U.S. (so not multitudinous ammounts of power in specific territory occured)
- Battle of Trafalgar
- napoleon lost his only one battle and it was this one major battle
- sans-culottes
- (orignially, knee length)
- Napoleonic code
- napoleon's greatest comprehensive system of laws
- national assembly
- the name of the Third Estate delegates, they would pass laws and reforms in the name of the French people
- Tennis Court Oath
- the Third Estate delegates were locked out of their meeting room, so they broke down the doors to an indoor tennis court and pledged to stay
- jacobins
- radical polical organization