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- Universal Manhood Suffrage
- Principle that every man had the right to vote, regardless of whether he owned property
- Voltaire
- Helped popularize British ideas in France with his Letters on England
- Legitimacy
- Principle that all former ruling families should be returned to their thrones
- Coup d'etat
- Seizure of power by force
- Judicial Branch
- Branch of the U.S. Government responsible for interpreting the laws.
- The Napoleonic Code
- A system of French laws formulated by Napoleon that became the foundation of many European legal systems.
- Liberalism
- Political movement that extended the principles of the American and French Revolutions with their ideals of individual rights and the rule of law
- Bourgeoisie
- Merchants, manufacturers, and professionals of the city-dwelling French middle class
- Enlightened Despotism
- System of government in which absolute monarchs ruled according to the principles of Enlightenment
- Treaty of Paris
- This document brought an end to the American Revolution.
- Concordat
- Agreement between Napoleon and the Pope that acknowledged Catholicism as the religion of most French citizens and in which the church gave up claims to its Revolutionary property
- Louis XVI
- French king during the French Revolution.
- Olympe de Gouges
- Led a group of women who wrote a declaration of rights for women that was rejected by the National Assembly
- Conscription
- The drafting of men into military services
- Indemnity
- Compensation to nations for damages inflicted on them
- Declaration of the Rights of Man
- The document adopted by the National Assembly, that stated and defined the principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity.
- Scorched-Earth Policy
- Policy of burning and destroying one's own crops and everything else that might be of value to intruders
- Bill of Rights
- First 10 amendments to U.S. Constitution
- Nationalism
- Love of ones country rather than of one's native religion
- Patriots
- American colonists who favored independence from Britain
- Horatio Nelson
- British Admiral whose fleet destroyed the combined French and Spanish fleets at Trafalgar
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Wrote in The Social Contract that all people are born good but that environment, education, and laws corrupt them.
- Plebiscite
- Procedure by which a government measure is submitted to the people for a vote
- 3rd Estate
- The commoners of French society prior to the revolution. The class that was divided into the bourgeoisie, laborers and artisans, and peasants.
- Metternich
- Foreign minister of Austria and chairman at the Congress of Vienna
- Congress of Vienna
- The allied countries met to settle political and territorial questions following the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
- Thomas Jefferson
- He was the principal author of the American Declaration of Independence
- Denis Diderot
- Edited and published the first edition of the Encyclopedia
- Louis XVIII
- French monarch who was restored to the throne by the allies after Napoleon was defeated
- Tithe
- One tenth of a person's income that is paid to the church.
- Émigrés
- French word for "emigrants", French nobles who fled to other European countries.
- Reactionaries
- Extremists who oppose a change and want to turn the clock back to the time before certain changes occurred
- Popular Sovereignty
- Belief that government is created by and subject to the will of the people