Chapter 23 Sec 1 & 2

Charles Dickens

1859 English writer

Edmund Burke

A British politician

Maximilien Robespierre

A Jacobins leader that slowly gained power

Guiliotine

A machine that beheaded people

Thomas Paine

A strong supporter of The American Revolution

Great Fear

A wave of senseless panic

Jacobins

As club members were called

Legislative Assembly

created by the new constitution

Louis XIV

Caused France's government to go into debt

National Assembly

Got together and proclaimed the end of absolute monarchy and beginning of a representative country.

Marie Antoinette

Louis XIVs queen, also caused France's government to go into debt

Marie Antionette

Louis XVI's queen who also caused France's govt. to go into debt

Robespierre

Mastermind of the Reign of Terror

2nd Estate

Owned 20% of France's lands and payed almost no taxes

The Death of Marat

When Charlotte Corday gained entrance to his bath and stabbed him.

Tennis Court Oath

When Third Estate delegates were forced to find a new meeting place, they made a pledge called the _________, to continue their meeting until they had drawn up a new constitution.

Bastile

a paris prison

Emigre'

nobles and others who had fled France, hoped to undo the Revolution and restore the Old Regime

Reign of Terror

the period of Robespierres rule because know as this

Old Regime

The social and political system in use in France in the 1770s called the ____, had been in place since the Middle Ages.

The Rise of the Jacopins

They thought the king needed to die

Jean Paul Marat

Thin, high strung and sickly man

National Assembly

Third Estate delegates named themselves this. They could pass laws and reforms in the name of the French people.

Sans Cylottes

Those without knee breachar

Estates

Three social classes that people were divided into