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French Revolution vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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Human rights | The basic rights given to all people |
American patriots | People who favored independence from Great Britain |
Tyranny | The unjust use of power, by the French monarchy |
Estates | Social classes |
Aristocracy | Nobles, who made up the second estate |
Bourgeois | Middle class |
National Assembly | A government consisting of delegates from the third estate |
Declaration of rights of man and the citizen | Said that the government got its power from the people, not the king. |
Radicals | People who favor quick and far reaching changes. |
Reign of terror | The time when the king Robespierre killed any one suspected of being disloyal. |
Directory | To run the government. |
Coup d' teat | Swift seizure of government. |
Napoleonic Code | A new legal system based on enlightenment ideals. |