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- T/F peasants were the largest group in the first estate
- Became leader of the committee of public safety and ruled France virtually as a dictator
- Members of this law making body who opposed the idea of monarchy and wanted sweeping governmental change
- Term used to describe nobles who had fled France and who hoped to restore the old regime
- New law Making c body created by the constitution adopted in 1791 by the National Assembly
- Executive body created in 1795 as part of a new plan of government
- Period of time during which maximilien Robespierre governed France
- T/F most people fell into the second estate during the old regime
- T/F The tennis court oath was an agreement of third estate delegates to the National Assembly to meet until they had drawn up a new constitution
- T/F the estates general was an assembly of representatives from all 3 classes
- Radical political organization that in September 1792 abolished the monarchy and declared France a republic
- Well known jacobin and lawyer eventually executed for being less radical than Robespierre
- T/F under the old regime in france the people of france were divided into 3 social classes called estates
- Parisian workers who wanted extremely radical change in government
- Device used as means of execution during the French Revolution.
- First estate attitude toward enlightenment ideas
- What influence did Montesquieu have on the US government?
- Whose arguments were used in the eighteenth century to support demands for constitutional government?
- Who believed that humans were guided by basic survival instincts?
- Which founding document reflects the American colonists' fear of a strong central government?