Mr. Scott's World History- French Revolution Vocabulary

Military tactic in which soldiers destroy everything in their path to hurt the enemy.

• Guerilla Warfare

• Sans-Culotte

• Scorched Earth Policy

• Plebiscite

Right to Vote

• Abdicate

• Sufferage

• Republic

• Cahier

Add a territory to an existing state or community

• Annex

• emigr'e

• Faction

• Estate

Fighting carried on thought hit and run raids

• Guerilla Warfare

• Scorched Earth Policy

• Reign of Terror

• Plebiscite

• Sufferage

• Cahier

• Guillotine

• French hair removal device

working class man or woman who made the revolution more radical: called such because he or she wore long trousers

• sans-culotte

• plebiscite

• abdicate

• cahier

Situation in which a government spends more money than it takes in

• Sufferage

• Faction

• Estate

• Deficit Spending

To give up or step down from power

• Abdicate

• Plebiscite

• Annex

• Jacobins

System of government in which officials are chosen by the people

• Communism

• Monarchy

• Republic

• Democracy

System of government in pre-revolutionary France

• Nationalism

• Socialism

• Oligarchy

• Ancient regime