23.1-23.2 Vocabulary Flashcards

294789165	Old Regime	a system of feudalism left from the Middle Ages that remained in France and divided it into estates	0
294789166	estate	large social class of France during the Old Regime	1
294789167	Louis XVI	king of France during the French Revolution; married to Marie Antoinette; extremely extravagant spender	2
294789168	Marie Antoinette	Austrian girl married to Louis XVI; hated throughout France for lineage and extravagant spending	3
294789169	Estates General	meeting of representatives of the estates in which each had equal representation despite the amount of population each represented	4
294789170	National Assembly	self-proclaimed name of the representatives of the Third Estate who wanted representation based on percentage of population	5
294789171	Tennis Court Oath	members of the Third Estate storm an indoor tennis court until the Estates General agree to a new constitution	6
294789172	Declaration of the Rights of Man	brought ideas from the Enlightenment stating that "all men are born and remain free and equal in rights"	7
294789173	Legislative Assembly	assembly recruited by the National Assembly to handle matters of the constitution, reluctantly signed by Louis XVI	8
294789174	emigres	nobles and others who fled of fear during the peasant uprisings in the early Revolution	9
294789175	sans culottes	"those without knee breeches"; lower and middle class citizens who wanted greater voice in the government	10
294789177	guillotine	instrument of execution that consists of a weighted blade between two vertical poles	11
294789179	Committee of Public Safety	committee headed by Robespierre during the Reign of Terror that controlled who would be defined as an "enemy of the state"	12
294789181	Reign of Terror	period during the dictatorship of Robespierre; from July 1793 to July 1794	13