chapter 21 french revolution KEY TERMS Flashcards
estates
the clergy, the nobility, and everyone else
manorial rights
privileges of lordship that dated back to medieval times
desacralization
the king was being stripped of the sacred aura of God’s anointed on earth and be reinvented as a degenerate
Assembly of notables
consisted mainly of important noblemen and high ranking clergy and demanded that control over all government spending be given to the provincial assemblies
estates general
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national assembly
consisted of the delegates of the third estate
constitutional monarchy
the National Assembly abolished the French nobility as a legal order and pushed forward with the creation
second revolution
the fall of the monarchy marked a rapid radicalization of the Revolution
girondists
one side of the Jacobin group named after a department i southwestern France that was home to several of their leaders
the Mountain
led by Robespierre and Georges Jacques Danton. Called cos its members sat at the uppermost benches on the left side of the assembly hall
sansculottes
laboring poor and petty traders, their interest were mainly economic
Reign of Terror
used revolutionary terror to solidify the home front; it was a political weapon directed impartially against all who might oppose the revolutionary government
abolition of slavery
February 4 1974 extended it to all French Territories
Thermidorian reaction
reaction to the despotism of the Reign of Terror
grand empire
Napoleon spread French empire in 1810 into 1. Belgium/Germany/northern Italy 2. Independent satellite kingdoms 3. independent but allied states of Austria, Prussia, and Russia
