The Western Experience, 10th Edition (Chambers)

Chapter 20: The French Revolution

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Estates General
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cahiers
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Bastille
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natural rights
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assignats
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Civil Constitution of the Clergy
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Jacobin Club
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sans-culottes
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Committee of Public Safety
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levée en masse
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.
B)Paper money issued by the French revolutionary governments, whose value was backed by nationalized church lands.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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