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French Revolution
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| universal manhood suffrage | Policy that every adult male could vote, whether he owned property |
| conscription | military draft |
| counterrevolutionary | activities aimed against the revolution. Anyone opposed to a revolution. |
| coup d'etat | the forceful overthrow of a government |
| Jacobins | Radical members of the Convention |
| Girondins | Members of the moderate republican party in the French Revolution |
| Georges-Jacques Danton | French Lawyer and Politician, involved in the storming of the Bastille |
| Maximillian Robespierre | most influential figures of the French Revolution, dominated the Committee of Public Safety and was instrumental in the period of the Revolution commonly known as the Reign of Terror, |
| Jean-Paul Marat | Swiss-born physician- a radical journalist. |
| Reign of Terror | a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution. |
| Napolean Bonaparte | he was Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1815.A French military and political leader |
| Josephine de Beauharnais | the first wife of Napoléon Bonaparte, and thus the first Empress of the French |