Chapter 23 Section 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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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 Persian wage-earners

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Jacobin

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Member of the Jacobin Club, a radical political organization

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5
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Guillotine

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Machine for beheading people

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Maximilien 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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