Step 2: Explain Why It Matters

Put your reading into practice. Identify each term below, and then explain why it matters in world history.

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TERM WHO OR WHAT & WHEN WHY IT MATTERS
Treaty of Paris
Declaration of Independence
Antifederalists
Estates General
National Assembly
Jacobin club
Mountain
Girondists
sans-culottes
Reign of Terror
Thermidorian reaction
Napoleonic Code
Grand Empire
Continental System
Creoles
peninsulares