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french revolution
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Legislative Assembly | Limited constitutional monarchy replaces National assembly |
| Sans culottes(radicals-leftists) | Members of 3rd estate who wanted a republic- no king |
| Moderates(centrists) | Wanted limited monarchy, king who must share power |
| Émigrés(conservatives) | Wanted to return to of regime |
| Jacobins | Radical group wanted to end monarchy and make france a republic |
| Maximilien Robespierre | Responsible for reign of terror |
| Jean Paul marat | His paper advocated violence |
| Georges Danton | popular with peasants |
| Committee of public safety | Group that identified enemies of the republic |
| Reign of terror | 80,000People executed after being identified as enemies of he republic |
| Guillotine | Killing device utilized during the reign of terror |
| Old regime | Pre-Revolutionary France ( politically economy socially) |
| Estates | Social classes |
| First estate | Members of church 1% |
| Second estate | Royalty and nobility 3% |
| Third estate | 1) merchants 2)workers 3)peasants |
| Louis XVI | King of France |
| Marie Antoinette | Queen of France |
| Estates General | Meeting of all three estates (1614) |
| National Assembly | Representative government formed by the third estate |
| Tennis court oath | Vow by third estate not to leave until they had written a new constitution |
| Storming of the Bastille | 3rd estate raid armory to confiscate guns and gunpowder |
| Great Fear | Panic at Paris and the country side advocating violence and the fear of Civil War |
| THe Women's March | 6000 women march to Versialles to bring back louis and Marie to Paris |
| Declaration of the Rights of Man | French declaration of independence on Enlightenment Ideals |