| A | B |
|---|
| Legislative Assembly | Congress created by the National Assembly (3rd estate) to enact laws and reforms |
| emigres | nobles and others who left France during the peasant uprisings and who hoped to come back to restore the Old Regime |
| sans-culottes | Parisian workers and shopkeepers who wanted the revolution to bring greater change |
| guillotine | execution device created by a doctor to be "efficient, human, and democratic" |
| Maximillien Robespierre | revolutionary leader who tried to wipe out every trace of France's past monarchy and nobility |
| Reign of Terror | period of extreme violence under Robespierre during which 1000s were executed |
| Jacobins | radical political organization that called for the death of those who supported the king |
| What new laws came into being (under the National Assembly)? | ended special rights for 1st and 2nd Estate, all french men equal rights, state power over church |
| In what ways did the emigres and sans-culottes have opposite goals? | emigres wanted to end changes and king backsans-culottes wanted greater changes |
| What happened to the king (Louis the XVI) under the Jacobins? | declared a common citizen, put on trial, convicted, and guillotined |
| Where did the Reign of Terror lead (government)? | a new less revolutionary plan of government |
