Chapter 23 Section 2 Flashcards
(7 cards)
1
Q
Legislative assembly
A
Assembly that replaced the National Assembly in 1791
2
Q
Émigrés
A
Nobles and others who left France during the peasant uprisings and who hoped to come back to restore the old system
3
Q
Sans-culottes
A
Radical group of Parisian wage-earners
4
Q
Jacobin
A
Member of the jacobin club, a radical political organization
5
Q
Guillotine
A
Machine for beheading people
6
Q
Maximilien Robespierre
A
Revolutionary leader who tried to wipe out every trace of frances past monarchy and nobility
7
Q
Reign of terror
A
Period of Robespierre rule
