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Chapter 7
Section Two
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Legislative Assembly | A French congress with the power to create laws and approve declarations of war, estiblished by the Constitution of 1791. |
| Emigres | A person who leaves his native country for political resons, like the nobles and others who fled France during the peasant uprisings of the French Revolution. |
| Sans-Culottes | In the French Revolution, a radical group msde up of Parisian wage-earners and small shopkeepers who wanted a greater voice in government, lower prices, and an end to tood shortages. |
| Jacobins | Club members of a aradical political organization. |
| Guillotine | A machine for beheading people, used as a means of execution during the French Revolution. |
| Maximilien Roberspierre | A Jacobin leader who slowly gained power in the early months of 1793. |
| Reign of Terror | In the period, from mid-1793 to mid-1794, when Maximilien Roberspierre ruled Franch nearly as a dictator and thousands of political figures and ordinary citizens were executed. |