A) | An assembly convened by Louis XVI in 1789 that represented the clergy, the nobility, and the Third Estate; once used to win support for royal policy, it had not met since 1614.
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B) | Paper money issued by the French revolutionary governments, whose value was backed by nationalized church lands.
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C) | An influential political club whose leaders propelled the French Revolution toward a democratic republic and supported the use of severe repression against the Revolution's enemies.
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D) | A military draft by the French National Convention in August 1793 of unmarried men between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five that recruited about 300,000 new soldiers.
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E) | A fortress prison seized on July 14, 1789, by Parisians looking for munitions to repulse the royal army; the event symbolized the Revolution's popular support.
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F) | The French Revolution's 1790 reform of the Catholic Church under which priests and bishops were elected by the laity, and parishes and dioceses were redrawn; created opposition to the Revolution and a schism within French Catholicism.
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G) | Parisian militants, mainly artisans and shopkeepers, who called for repression of counterrevolutionaries, price controls, and direct democracy; helped bring the Jacobins to power in 1793.
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H) | A committee of deputies to the National Convention that set political and military strategy and formed the hub of the revolutionary dictatorship of 1793–1794.
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I) | Liberties that should be common to all people by virtue of their nature as human beings; one basis for the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1789.
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J) | Grievance petitions written by local electoral assemblies, to be presented to the king by the deputies attending the Estates General in France.
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