Chapter 19 Flashcards
Popular Sovereignty
Authority derived from the people rather than from God or Tradition
3 Classes called estates or the orders of france
-first estate consisted of the clergry
-second estate consisted of the nobility
-third estate consisted of everyone else
elite of wealthy commoners who were merchants, manufacturers, and professionals
bourgeoisies
a body of deputies from the three estates or orders
the estates general
tennis court oath
they agreed not to separate until they had given france a consition
Bastille date
July 14th 1789
Bastille
a huge fortified prison that symbolized royal authority
Great fear
a period of panic and riot by rural peasants amid rumors aristocratic conspiracies to overthrow the 3rd estate
declaration of the right of man and citizen, it proclaimed
men are born and remain free and equal rights
political clubs french, devotedly radical republican left wing group
jacobins
the slogans and values that will define the revolution
liberty, equality, fraternity
marat was assassinated by charlotte corday a girondin sympathizer, convention agreed to establish
revolutionary armies committee of public safety, the terror
between sept. 5 1793, july 27 1794, the period called the
reign of terror
fearing for the safety of its members, in july 1794, convention ended the terror by arresting and executing
Robespierre and his followers
dies with robespierre, france will enter a period of uncertainty
fear of another terror or a return to the oppressive monarch that proceed it