H19 Western civilization: Beyond boundaries | Quizlet

Third Estate

In France, the common people, as distinct from the clergy

(First Estate) and nobles (Second Estate), in the representative body the Estates General.

National Assembly

Legislative body formed in France in June 1789, when members of the Third Estate in the Estates General, joined by some deputies from the clergy, declared themselves the representatives of the nation.

Tennis Court Oath

Pledge signed by all but one deputy of the National Assembly in France on June 20, 1789, to meet until a constitution was drafted

Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen

Document issued by the National Assembly of France in August 1789. Modeled on the U.S. Constitution, it asserted "the natural, inalienable, and sacred rights of man."

sans-culottes

Ordinary citizens of revolutionary Paris, whose derisive nickname referred to their inability to afford fashionable knee pants ("culottes").

Jacobins

in revolutionary

France, a republican political

club named for a monastic

order.

Maximilien Robespierre

French lawyer and revolutionary leader, influential member of the Committee of Public Safety (1793-1794); advocated Terror to suppress internal dissent.

the Terror

Systematic repression of internal enemies undertaken by

French revolutionary government from 1793 to 1794. Approximately fourteen thousand people were executed, including aristocrats, Girondins, and sans-culottes

Society of Revolutionary

Republican Women in revolutionary Paris, a powerful political club that represented the interests of female sans-culottes.

Directory French

revolutionary government from 1795 to 1799, consisting of an executive council of five men chosen by the upper house of the legislature.

Napoleon Bonaparte

French general who took part in a coup in 1799 against the Directory, Napoleon consolidated power as first consul and ruled as emperor from 1804 to 1815.

Civil Code

Law code established under Napoleon in 1804 that included limited acceptance of revolutionary gains, such as a guarantee of equality before the law and taxation of all social classes.

François Dominique

Toussaint-Louverture: Former slave who governed the island of Saint Domingue (Haiti) as an independent state after the slave revolt of 1791.