french revolution Flashcards
tennis court oath
a pledge to not stop until they made a constitution for france
women’s march
they went to versailles and demanded the king to move to paris
champ de mars massacre
the king said that he would remain under a constitutional monarchy and the people disagreed with his desicion
reign of terror
robespierre feared too many people were conspiring against the revolution and he and the gam to arrest all the suspects in france and guillottemed them at least 50,00 dead
bastille day
day where people stormed the prison
king louis the 16th
king of france
wife was marie antoinette
lived in versailles
guillotined
marie antionette
queen of france
husband was king louis the 16th
versailles
leopold the second
king of belgians
robespierre
jacobin
best known influential figures associated with reign of terror
napoleon bonaparte
frenchmilitary leader in french revolution
led several successful campaigns during revolutionary wars
3 estates
clergy
nobility
commoners
jacobins
democratic club in paris
most ruthless groups in french revolution
royalist
supports monarch as head of state
grape shot
ammunition constituting of a number of small iron balls fired together in a cannon
levee en masse
policy of military in french revolution