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| the rest of the population not including the nobility and clergy |
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| the middle class (part of the Third Estate) |
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| government spending more than it takes in in taxes and fees |
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| King of France (23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793) King of France and Navarre from 1774 until 1791, after which he was subsequently King of the French from 1791 to 1792, before his deposition and execution during the French Revolution. |
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| financial advisor to Louis XVI. Proposed taxing the First and Second Estates and abolishing internal tariffs. |
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| Legislative Body consisting of members of all three Estates. The Estates General had not met for 175 years. |
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| a notebook listing the grievances of the individual Estates. Each Estate created their own notebook. |
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| An agreement by members of the Third Estate to meet as necessary until a sound and just constitution is established |
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| medieval fortress used to house political prisoners. French populace rose up and overthrew the soldiers at the fortress starting the French Revolution. |
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| dissenting groups of people |
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| Headed National Guard, colleague of George Washington during American Revolution |
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| female journalist, Author of Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen |
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| Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen |
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| Document proclaiming that ALL men were equal before the law. Modeled, in part, on the Declaration of Independence. |
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| Wife of Louis XVI, Queen of France, daughter of Maria Theresa of Austria. Led a life of great pleasure at Versailles |
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| 1789-1791, government that turned France into a constitutional monarchy. |
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| Replaced the royalist government of Paris. Beginning of the radical influence of the French Revolution. |
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| 1792-1794, a period of escalating violence led to the end of the monarchy. |
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| 1795-1799, a reaction to the extremism of the radical Reign of Terror |
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| 1799-1815, a period of consolidation of many revolutionary changes. |
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| nobles, clergy and others who fled France and its revolutionary changes |
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| a group of working class men and women who pushed the revolution into more radical action. |
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| a government ruled by elected representatives |
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| a political club made of lawyers and intellectuals who used media to promote the idea of the republic |
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| counterrevolutionary who embraced Rousseau's idea of general will being the source of legitimate law. |
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| Led by Robespierre, arrested hundreds of thousands. Tens of thousands tried and executed by guillotine |
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