Chapter 23 Section 2 Flashcards
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Legislative assembly
Assembly that replaced the National Assembly in 1791
Émigrés
Nobles and others who left France during the peasant uprisings and who hoped to come back to restore the old system
Sans-culottes
Radical group of Parisian wage-earners
Jacobin
Member of the jacobin club, a radical political organization
Guillotine
Machine for beheading people
Maximilien Robespierre
Revolutionary leader who tried to wipe out every trace of frances past monarchy and nobility
Reign of terror
Period of Robespierre rule