Chapter 23 Section 1&2 Flashcards
Legislative Assembly
Assembly that replaced the National Assembly in 1791
émigrés
Noble and others that left France during the peasant uprisings and who hoped to comeback and restore the old system
sans-culottes
Radical group of Parsons wage-earners
Jacobin
Member of the Jacobin Club, a radical political organization
guillotine
Machine for beheading people
Maximilian Robespierre
Revolutionary leader who tried to wipe out every trace of France’s past monarchy and nobility
Reign of Terror
Period of Robespierre’s rule
Old Regime
System of feudalism
Louis XVI
Weak king who came to French throne in 1774
Marie Antoinette
Unpopular; wife of Louis XVI
Estates-General
Assembly of representatives from all three estates
National Assembly
French Congress established by representatives of the Third Estate
Tennis court oath
Promise made by third estate representatives to draw up a new constitution
Great Fear
Wave of panic