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15 Cards in this Set
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Old Regime |
the social and political system of France |
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estate |
three large social classes
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Louis XVI |
King of France during the 1770-80’s
weak ruler |
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Marie Antoinette |
Queen of France during the 1770-80’s
gambler “Madame Deficit” |
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Estates-General |
an assembly of representatives from all three estates
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National Assembly |
name of the Third Estate delegates
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Tennis Court Oath |
the pledge that the Third Estate was going to stake out an indoor tennis court until their was a new constitution made
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Great Fear |
a wave of senseless panic in France where the peasants became outlaws |
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Legislative Assembly |
a new legislative body had the power to create laws and to approve/reject declarations of war |
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emigre |
nobles and others who had fled France
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sans-culotte |
“those without knee breeches"
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Jacobin |
club members of a radical political organization
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guillotine |
a machine that beheaded people
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Maximilien Robespierre |
Jacobin leader who set out to build a “republic of virtue"
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Reign of Terror |
the ruling time period of Maximilien Robespierre |
