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9 Cards in this Set
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feudal orders
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Three Estates: clergy, nobility, and everybody else
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middle class
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third estate "everybody else" developing economic/politcal power (merchants, traders)
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National Assembly
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third estate, came out of estates general,+tennis court oath-not leave until new constitution is written for equality=nat'l assembly, 1st rev, act of FR, 1789
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Declaration of the Rights of Man
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Equality for all men before the law (abolishment of feudal privileges)
Individual freedom of property, speech, assembly, 1789-91 Representative government, limited monarchy, no longer absolute |
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Jacobins
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nat'l assembly dissolved, majority of the new legislative assemlby, committed to liberal revolution, distrustful of monarchy
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Maximilien Robespierre
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after execution of king, he leads politcal battles between Girondists and Mountain, executed July 1794
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sans-culottes
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working class/traders, politcally involved, sided with Mountain/Robespierre
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Reign of Terror
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war not going well for France=formation of Committee for Public Safety. Radicalism of Robespierre/ sans-culottes leads to mass executions of nobles/counter-revolutionaries/suspected monarchists/anyone deemed threat, 1794-99
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Thermidorian Reaction
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'Conservative' phase of F.R, July Rev., foreign invasion gone, ppl tired of instability, execute Robespierre, 1794-99
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