A political ideology that stresses collective unity based on race, culture, or ethnic origin.
Bourbon monarch of France executed during the Revolution.
A "humane" form of execution and a symbol of the bloody excesses of the French Revolution.
Napoleon's first exile was on the Mediterranean island of...
An old French term for the feudalist estate system.
Originally one of the radicals of the Revolution, this man was executed for wanting to end the Reign of Terror.
A person who opposed revolution and wanted to see the restoration of royal power and Church influence.
The English political philosopher whose writing most deeply affected the American Revolution.
The young lawyer who took over the revolutionary government in France and ushered in the Reign of Terror.
The young country woman who assassinated Jean-Paul Marat.
Most radical phase of the French Revolution, during which tens of thousands of citizens were killed, mostly by angry mobs.
This mean-spirited malcontent used his newspaper to incite revolutionaries to slaughter defenseless prisoners.
The charter documents of the American republic are the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the...
The beginning of the end for Napoleon was his catastrophic invasion of...
Advocate of universal voting rights and reforms that favored the lower classes.
Immediately after the American Revolution, but before the ratification of the Constitution, the new American nation could accurately be called a...
A member of the radical faction within the French revolutionary government.