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Junko French Rev
Term | Definition |
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John Locke | He believed people were entitled to Life, Liberty, and Property |
Voltaire | He believed that people should be led by an Enlightened Monarch |
Rousseau | He believed that education should be experienced first hand |
Montesquieu | He believed in the separation of powers |
Tennis Court Oath | A vow to continue to meet until the 3rd Estate was given authority within the government |
Sans-Culottes | Political group during the French Revolution led by ordinary patriots that did not wear finer clothes like culottes |
Committee of Public Safety | Group of men that were give broad powers to defend France from all threats to the revolution |
Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen | This document declared equal rights for all men |
Maximillian Robespierre | The head of the Committee of Public Safety |
Austria and Prussia | These were the two nations that revolutionaries fought during the French Revolution |
Reign of Terror | The systematic execution of any enemy of the revolution |
Bastille | The prison in Paris that housed the government's gun powder supply |
Thermodorian Reaction | The capture and execution of Robespierre |
Marie Antoinette | The queen of France that recklessly spent money on clothes, jewelry, and lavish parties |
Emigres | Nobles that fled France during the French Revolution |
Great Fear | The unorganized panic in which peasants rose up against the noble class |
Law of Suspects | Enabled the Committee of Public Safety to execute anyone they considered an enemy of the Revolution |
Jean Paul Marat | Leader of the Sans Culotte that was stabbed to death in his bathtub |
The Directory | Government that consisted of Five Executives |
Jacobins | Radical party within the National Convention that was led by Robespierre |