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23 Cards in this Set
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System of feudalism left over from the Middle ages in the 1770s.
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Old Regime
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Louis XVI's wife who spent extravagantly on jewelry. She was also a member of the royal family of Austria, France's long time enemy.
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Marie Antoinette
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An assembly of representatives from all three estates called together by Louis.
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Estates-general
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Social classes of France.
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First-Clergy; Second-Nobles;Third-Bourgeoisie, workers, peasants
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Where the meeting of the Estates-general took place.
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Versailles
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Clergyman sympathetic to the Third Estate who suggested the National Assembly.
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Abbe Sieyes
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the Third Estate delegates broke into a tennis court and pledged to stay until they had drawn up a new constitution.
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Tennis Court Oath
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The great prison which held gunpowder and was broken into by the mob.
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Bastille
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Group of Third Estate delegates who passed laws and reforms in the name of the French people.
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National Assembly
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King during the French Revolution.
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Louis XVI
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Worry that the nobles had hired outlaws to terrorize the peasants.
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Great Fear
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Statement adopted by the National Assembly which stated that men are born equal and free.
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Declaration of the Rights of Man
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Woman who wrote a declaration of the writes of woman and was beheaded because of it.
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Olympe de Gouges
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Instrument used for accurate beheadings.
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Guillotine
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Assembly which had the power to create laws and to approve or prevent any war the king declared on other nations.
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Legislative Assembly
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Opposed the king and the idea of a monarchy and wanted many changes.
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Left Wing (Radicals)
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Upheld idea of a monarchy and wanted few changes.
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Right Wing (Conservatives)
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Nobles who had fled Frances during the peasants uprising and wanted to restore the monarchy.
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Emigres
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Wanted to remove the king and establish a republic.
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Jacobins
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Radical leader who edited a radical newspaper.
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Jean Paul Marat
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Strong speaker devoted to the revolution.
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Georges Danton
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Period with Robespierre as leader ruling as a dictator.
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Reign of Terror
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Constitution which placed power in the hands of the upper middle class.
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Directory
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