A | B |
Declaration of the Rights of Man | guaranteed rights such as liberty and property |
Legislative Assembly | replaced National Assembly; ltook away most ofkings power |
emigres | nobles and others who left France during the peasant uprisings and who hoped to come back to the old system |
sans-culottes | radical group of Parisian wage-earners who wanted a greater voice in gov't. |
guillotine | machine for beheading people |
Maximilien Robespierre | revolutionary leader who tried to wipe out every trace of France's past monarchy and nobility |
Committee of Public Safety | led by Robespierre; enemies of the republic were executed |
Reign of Terror | the period of Robespierre's rule; period of killing and unrest |