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The French Revolutio
Junior Cert History
Term | Definition |
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Absolute Monarchy | Monarch ruled with no opposition |
Divine right of Kings | God gave power to the king |
Estates-General | Parliament |
First estate | church leaders |
Second estate | Nobles |
Third estate | Ordinary people |
Tennis court oath | Third estate decided and promised not to pay tax |
Sans-Culottes | Ordinary people |
Bastille | French Prison |
Declaration of the Rights of Man | Equal rights for all citizens |
Beheaded | Executed |
Radicals/Jacobins | Wanted quick change |
Conservatives | Wanted slow change |
Robespierre | Leader of the Jacobins |
Reign of terror | Robespierre executed 40,000 people |
The Directory | New Government of France |
Napoleon Bonaparte | New leader of france |