Tale Of Two Cities Vocab Flashcards
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Absolute monarchy
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Unlimited authority of the king
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Estates
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The estates General, three groups, clergy, noblemen, and everyone else
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Divine right
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Monarchs thought it was their divine right to rule, bestowed onto them by God
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Bastille
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Fortress where they imprisoned political prisoners,
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Storming of the Bastille date
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July 14, 1789
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Émigrés
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French nobles who fled the country
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Slogan of national convention
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Liberty, equality, fraternity, declared France to be a republic
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Robespierre
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He was the leader of the mountain, radical leaders of the revolution
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Reign of terror
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Policy declared by the conventions committee, 18,000 death sentences were handed out during this time
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Guillotine
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Contraption used for execution
