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Chapter 23 Section 1&2 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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Noble and others that left France during the peasant uprisings and who hoped to comeback and restore the old system

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sans-culottes

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Radical group of Parsons wage-earners

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Jacobin

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Member of the Jacobin Club, a radical political organization

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guillotine

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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 France’s past monarchy and nobility

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Reign of Terror

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Period of Robespierre’s rule

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Old Regime

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System of feudalism

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Louis XVI

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Weak king who came to French throne in 1774

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Marie Antoinette

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Unpopular; wife of Louis XVI

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Estates-General

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Assembly of representatives from all three estates

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National Assembly

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French Congress established by representatives of the Third Estate

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Tennis court oath

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

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Great Fear

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Wave of panic

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