23-1 Flashcards

1
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Old regime

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System of feudalism

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2
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Estate

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Social class of people

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3
Q

Louis XVI

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Weak king who came to French throne in 1774

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4
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Marie Antoinette

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Unpopular queen, would de of Louis XVI

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5
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Estates general

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Assembly of representatives from all three estates

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6
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National Assembly

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French congress established by representatives of the third estate

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7
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Tennis courts oath

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Promise made by third estate representatives to draw up a new constitution

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8
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Great fear

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Wave of panic

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9
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Legislative assembly

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Assembly that replaced the National Assembly in 1791

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10
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Émigrés

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Nobles and others who left France during the peasant uprisings and who hoped to come back to restore old system

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11
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Sans-culottes

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Radical group of Parisian wage-earners

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12
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Jacobin

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Member of the jacobin club, a radical political political organization

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13
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Reign of terror

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Period of Robespierres rule

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