Revolution Brings Reform and Terror Flashcards
1
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Legislative Assembly
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Assembly that replaced the National Assembly in 1791
2
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Émigrés
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Nobles and others who left France during the peasant uprisings and who hoped to come back to restore the old system
3
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Sans-culottes
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Radical group of Parisian wage-earners
4
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Jacobin
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Member of the Jacobin Club, a radical political organization
5
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Guillotine
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Machine for beheading people
6
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Maximilian Robespierre
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Revolutionary leader who tried to wipe out every trace of France’s past monarchy and nobility
7
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Reign of Terror
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Period of Robespierre’s rule
