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13 Cards in this Set
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Old Regime |
System of feudalism |
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Estate |
Social class of people |
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Louis XVI |
weak king who came to french throne in 1774 |
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Marie Antoinette |
Unpopular queen; wife of Louis XVI |
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Estates-General |
Assembly of representatives from all three estates |
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National Assembly |
French congress established by representatives of the Third Estate |
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Tennis Court Oath |
Promise made by third estate representatives to draw up a new constitution
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Great Fear |
Wave of panic |
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Legislative Assembly |
Assembly that replaced the National Assembly in 1791 |
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Emigres |
Nobles and others who left France during the peasants uprising and who hoped to come back to restore the old system |
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Sans-culottes |
Radical group of Parisian wage-earners |
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Jacobin |
member of the Jacobin club, a radical politicial organization |
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