A.Revolution Brings Reform & Terror Flashcards
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Legislative Assembly
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Assembly that replaced the National Assembly in 1791
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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 the old system.
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Sans-Culottes
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Radical group of Parisian wage-earners
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Jacobin
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A member of the Jacobin Club, a radical political organization
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Gillotine
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Machine for beheading people.
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Maximilian Robespierre
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Revolutionary leader who tried to wipe out every trace of Frances past monarchy and nobility.
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Reign of terror
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Period of Robespierre’s rule