Globl ch 23 list 1,2 Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Legislative Assembly | Assembly that replaced the National Assembly in 1791 |
emigres | Nobles and others who left France during the peasant uprisings and who hoped to come back to restore the old system |
sans-culottes | Radical group of Parisian wage-earners |
Jacobin | Member of the Jacobin Club, a radical political organization |
Maximilien Robespierre | Revolutionary leader who tried to wipe out every trace of France's past monarchy and nobility |
Reign of Terror | Period of Robespierre's rule |
Guillotine | Machine for beheading people |
Old Regime | System of feudalism |
Estate | Social class of people |
Louis XVI | Weak king who came to French throne in 1774 |
Marie Antoinette | Unpopular queen; wife of Louis XVI |
Estates-General | Assembly of representatives from all three estates |
National Assembly | French congress established by representatives of the Third Estate |
Tennis Court Oath | Promise made by Third Estate representatives to draw up a new constitution |
Great Fear | Wave of panic |
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