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This was the first governing body of the French Revolution. Created amidst the turmoil of the Estates-General that Louis XVI called in 1789.
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France´s Third Estate voted "not to separate and reassemble whenever necessary until the Constitution of the kingdom is established."
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French peasants stormed the French armory, fortress, and prison known as the Bastille for weapons and to free political prisoners.
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This was a general panic at the beginning of the French Revolution caused by rumors of the aristocracy having a plot to starve out the lower class.
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This was a civil rights document written during the French Revolution, drafted in consultation with Thomas Jefferson.
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Louis XVI and his family went on a royal Flight to Varennes to try and escape the oncoming revolution.
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The Legislative Assembly was formed to make laws between the times of the National Constituent Assembly and the National Convention.
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This was a period of the French Revolution when several massacres and public executions took place in response to the revolution.
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The French Revolutionary government set up a directory that included a bicameral legislature known as the Corps Législatif.
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This was an agreement between Napoleon Bonaparte and the religious authorities in Rome and Paris, defining the status of the Roman Catholic church in France.
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This was a land deal between the United States and France in which the United States acquired about 827,000 miles of land west of the Mississippi River.
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French Code Napoléon, French civil code enacted on March 21, 1804, and still extant, with revisions, It was the main influence on the 19th-century civil codes of most countries of continental Europe and Latin America.
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A blockade during the Napoleonic wars designed to weaken Great Britain by making trade inaccessible for them.
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Napoleon and his army attempted to invade and take over Russia, but were extremely unsuccessful and suffered huge losses.
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Napoleon is banished by the Treaty of Fontainebleau to the Meditteranean island of Elba.
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This marked the period between Napoleon's exile on the island of Elba and his return to Paris.
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Napoleon Bonaparte is exiled to Helena and dies there.