Chapter 23 section 1,2

Question 1

Legislative assembly

Answer 1

Assembly that replaced the National Assembly in 1791

Question 2

Émigrés

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Sans-culottes

Answer 3

Radical group of Parisian wage- earners

Question 4

Jacobin

Answer 4

Member of the jacobin club, a radical political organization

Question 5

Guillotine

Answer 5

Machine for beheading people

Question 6

Maximilien Robespierre

Answer 6

Revolutionary leader who tried to wipe out every trace of France’s past monarchy and nobility

Question 7

Reign of Terror

Answer 7

Period of Robespierre’s rule

Question 8

Old Regime

Answer 8

System of feudalism

Question 9

estate

Answer 9

Social class of people

Question 10

Louis XVI

Answer 10

Weak king who came to French throne in 1774

Question 11

Marie Antoinette

Answer 11

Unpopular queen; wife of Louis XVI

Question 12

Estates -General

Answer 12

Assembly of representatives from all three estates

Question 13

National Assembly

Answer 13

French congress established by representatives of the Third Estate

Question 14

Tennis Court Oath

Answer 14

Promos made by Third Estate representatives to draw up a new constitution

Question 15

Great Fear

Answer 15

Wave of panic