Unit 8 Vocab Flashcards
The system of feudalism lefts over from the Middle Ages
Old Regine
Large social classes
Estate
King in 1774
Louis XVI
Louis wife; part of royal family of Austria
Marie Antoinette
An assembly of representatives from all three estates
Estates General
The third estate that passed laws and reforms in the name of the french people
National Assembly
Pledge to not leave the tennis court until there was a new constitution written
Tennis Court Oath
A wave of senseless panic
Great Fear
A statement of revolutionary ideas
Declaration of the rights of man
Assembly that had the power to create laws and approve or prevent war the king declared on other nations
Legislative assembly
Nobles and others who had fled France during the peasant uprising
Emigres
Wage earners and shop owners that wanted more say in the government
Sans culottes
Machine used to behead people
Guillotine
Ruler that set out to build a republic of virtue
Maximilien Ronespierre
Committee establish to be enemies of the republic
Committee of public safety