| A | B |
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| Old Regime | system of feudalism in France before the Revolution |
| Great Fear | a wave of panic tha spread throughout France |
| guerrilla | a Spanish peasant fighter during the Penninsular War; also used to describe an unconventional fighter or soldier |
| Balance of power | condition in which no one country becomes a thret to the other |
| Concert of Europe | a series of alliances set up by the Metternich and the Congress of Vienna to help prevent revolutions |
| estate | the social class of people in France |
| Marie Antoinette | wife of Louis XVI |
| Tennis Court Oath | a promise made by the Third Estate representatives to draw up a new constitution of France |
| First Estate | made up of the clergy of France |
| Reign of Terror | the period of Robespierre's rule when many French citizens were put to death |
| Louis XVI | a weak King who came to the French throne in 1774 |
| Second Estate | made up of the nobility in France |
| Scorched-earth policy | used by Napoleon, it is burning of fields and slaughtering livestock so that enemy troops would find nothing to eat |
| Continental System | Napolean's policy of preventing trade and communication between Great Britain and other European nations |
| Naploeon Bonaparte | a military leader who seized power in France and brought order and stability to France after the Reign of Terror |
| concordat | an agreement |
| emigres | nobles and others who left France during the peasant uprisings and who hoped to come back to restore the old system |
| Third Estate | made up of the bourgeoisie, workers and peasants in France |
| bourgeoisie | mostly well off merchants and skilled workers who lacked the status of nobles |
| Estates-General | Assembly of representatives from all three estates in pre-revolution France |
| Napoleonic Code | complete set of laws set up by Napoleon that eliminated many injustices |
| National Assembly | French Congress established by representatives of the Third Estate |
| blockade | forced closure of ports |
| Legislative Assembly | Assembly that replaced the national Assembly in 1791 |
| Maximilien Robespierre | a revolutionary leader who tried to wipe out every trace of France's past monarchy and nobility |
| coup d'etat | a sudden takeover of a govt. |
| Holy Alliance | a league formed by Russia, Austria and Prussia |
| plebiscite | a vote by the people |
| legitimacy | bringing back to power the kings that Napleon had driven out |
| Congress of Vienna | meetings in Vienna for the purpose fo restoring order in Europe after Napoleon |
