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Concerns the structure of society and legitamate government.
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Written by John Locke about political philosophy. First Treatise attacks patriachalism and the Second Treatise outlines his ideas for a more civilised society based on natural rights and contract theory.
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A conflict between Britiain and France for control of territory in North America.
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Was a French lawyer, politician, and one of the best known and most influtential figures of the French Revolution. Member of the Estates-General.
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French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the latter stages of the French Revolution and its associated wars in Europe.
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King of France and Navarre from 1774 until 1791, after which he was subsquently King of the French from 1791 to 1792, before his desposition and execution during the French Revolution.
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War between the Kingdom of Great Britiain and the Thirteen Colonies, burt gradually grew into the world war between Britain onone side and the newly formed United States, France, Netherlands, and Spain on the other.
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Pledge signed by 576 of the 577 members from the Third Estate who were locked out of a meeting of the Estates-General.
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Came together to impasse as the three states clashed over their respective powers to propose solutions to LousXVI financial problems.
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Rumors of the peasants revolting which was a deciding factor in the deceison to abolish fuedalism.
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Defines the individual and collective rights of all the estates of the realm as universal.
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King Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antonitte and their two children try to escape from the peasants wrath, but fail.
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Provided the focus of the political debate and revolutionary law-making between the periods of the National Consituent Assembly and of the National Convention
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French armies lacked organization and discipline, and many noble officers had emigrated. The allied Austrian and Prussian forces under Charles William Ferdinand, duke of Brunswick, quickly crossed the frontier and began to match on Paris.
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Formed as an administration body to supervise and expedite the work of the executive bodies of the convention and of the government minisiters appointed by the convention.
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Tried for high treason before the National Convention, found guilty by almost all and condemned to death by a slight majority. Execution made him the first victim of the Reign of Terror.
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Period of violence that occured for one year and two months after the onset of the French Revolution. This reign of terror was led by Maximilien Robespierre.
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Attempted suicide - shot himself in the jaw - failed. He then was decapitated.
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Reduced the French and allied invasion forces to a tiny fraction of their initial strength and triggered a major shift in European polotics.
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Banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba after the Battle of Waterloo.
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Last battle Napolean fought. The defeat at Waterloo ended his reign.
