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  1. 4. Regime Political and social system in pre-revolution France; absolutism
  2. 9. French middle class
  3. 10. machine invented during the French Revolution; used to execute “counter-revolutionaries” during the Reign of Terror
  4. 11. Panic throughout French countryside (1789) after storming of Bastille; country people didn’t know if there was still a king and were worried about their lives.
  5. 13. Replaces Estates General (1784); attempts to improve power of the people; ask monarch for a written constitution guaranteeing rights to people.
  6. 14. 1792-1795 Robespierres’s dictatorship executed “counter revolutionaries” (people against the revolution); thousands of people were executed
  7. 16. Congress of Vienna's plan to force France to pay for war damages caused by Napoleon's army
  8. 17. of Vienna A series of meeting in 1814-1815; European leaders met to establish long lasting peace and security after Napoleon’s defeat.
  9. 18. 1769-1821- Military Dictator of France 1799-1815; established schools, Napoleonic Code (laws), and established religious toleration.
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  1. 1. Pledge; National Assembly (replaced the Estates General) demands King agrees to a written constitution; National Assembly met until a new constitution was drafted to limit the power of the monarch.
  2. 2. Congress of Vienna's plan to restore the monarchs to the thrones of Europe
  3. 3. 1774 – 1791; King of France; executed during French revolution; inherited debt from his father;(grandfather,Louis XIV - built palace at Versaille); fought many wars; weak monarch
  4. 5. Battle in 1815; Belgium, Britain, Austria, and Russia vs France/Napoleon; Napoleon was defeated.
  5. 6. Social classes: 1st Clergy, 2nd Nobles, 3rd Everyone else.
  6. 7. Dictator; head of the Committee on Public Safety; thought everyone was against revolution; sent thousands to the guillotine
  7. 8. No one nation would be powerful enough to control the European continent; goal of Congress of Vienna; prevent any future Napoleons!
  8. 12. French legislature; 3 estates represented, each estate gets one vote; 3rd estate is always outnumbered; it hadn't met in 175 years
  9. 15. Violent overthrow of the government