| A | B |
|---|
| The king of France during the French Revolution | Louis XVI |
| took the Tennis Court Oath | representatives of the Third Estate |
| Year France become a Republic | 1792 |
| led the Reign of Terror | Maximilien Robespierre |
| Napoleon's last battle | Waterloo |
| made up the vast majority of French society in the 1780s | Peasants, Serfs |
| contributed to France's financial crisis in the 1780s | The government spent more money than it collected |
| kept the National Assembly from solving France's problems | War broke out with England, and the reforms had to be put on hold. |
| led to Napoleon's downfall | invasion of Russia |
| chief goal of the Congress of Vienna | create a lasting peace |
| European country Napoleon was unable to conquer | Britain |
| Person MOST responsible for the accomplishments of the Congress of Vienna | Prince Klemens von Metternich of Austria. |
| bourgeoisie | middle class |
| estate | order of society |
| tithe | 10% tax on income |
| Bastille | Paris prison |
| unicameral legislature | one-house assembly |
| emigres | mobles who had fled France |
| September massacres | killing imprisoned nobles and priests accused of political crimes |
| Jacobins | supporters of the "sans-culottes" and extreme radicals |
| Girondists | group of moderates |
| conscription | military draft |
| Reign of Terror | Jacobins effort to crush all opposition within France |
| coup d'etat | sudden overthrow of government leaders by a small group |
| dictatorship | government headed by an absolute ruler |
| Lycees | schools designed to provide well-educated, patriotic government workers |
| plebiscite | popular vote |
| Nationalism | pride in one's onw nation; desire for independence |
| reactionaries | a desire to return things to the way they had been in earlier times |
| buffer state | neutral territory between rival powers, intended to prevent conflict |
| liberalism | political philosophy that promotes social change and individual freedoms |
