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AICE European History Absolute Monarchy - correct answer A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator is not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition Constitutional Monarchy - correct answer A form of government in which the king retains his position as head of state,while the authority to tax and make new laws resides in an elected body Parliament - correct answer An assembly of party representatives that chooses a government and discusses major national issues Ancien Régime - correct answer A class structure left over from the Middle Ages that determined the political and social order of France filled with class injustices,weakened and almost bankrupt France First Estate - correct answer Made up of the clergy,which included all ordained members of the Catholic Church in France Second Estate - correct answer Made up of the nobility,which included all titled aristocrats Third Estate - correct answer Made up of the citizenry,which included everyone who was neither clergy nor nobility and whose membership accounted for 96% of the population of France Bourgeoisie - correct answer The comfortable members of the third estate,or upper middle class.Rose up to lead the entire third estates in the revolution Estates -General - correct answer A legislative body in prerevolutionary France made up of representatives of each of the three classes or estates;it was called into session in 1789 for the first time since 1614 National Assembly - correct answer The first French revolutionary legislature,made up of representatives of the third estate Tennis Court Oath - correct answer Oath taken by members of the third estate to draft a new constitution after being dismissed and kept out of the National Assembly Storming of Bastille - correct answer French prison stormed on July 14th,1789 for weapons by peasant mob,became known as first day of the revolution and Independence Day for France Great Fear - correct answer Violence in the countryside after the Bastille fell peasants armed themselves and began driving landlords from their property Émigrés - correct answer French nobles who fled France,tried to convince leaders from other countries to stop the revolts in France Republic - correct answer A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them Sans -Culottes - correct answer A radical group made up of wage earners,and small shopkeepers who wanted to bring about greater Change in the French Revolution,wanted a greater voice in government,lower prices,and an end of food shortage Jacobins - correct answer Radical republicans during the French Revolution who saw themselves as the voice of the people,led by Maximilien Robspierre,started the reign of terror,dominant group in the National Convention Girondins - correct answer Delegates in the National Convention who favored a republic but feared domination by Paris Reign of Terror - correct answer Period in which Robspierres Committee of Public Safety tried and executed thousands suspected of treason and new revolutionary culture was imposed Thermidorian Reaction - correct answer A reaction to the violence of the Reign of Terror in 1974,resulting in the execution of Robspierre and the loosening of economic controlsThe benefits of buying summaries with Stuvia:
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