The French Revolution Key vocab

National assembly

abolished feudalism, ended aristocratic privileges

National convention

Abolished monarcy, declared france a republic

Committee of public safety

run by 12 men, lead by robespierre, Goal was to defented the revolution at all cost

Regin of Terror

16,000 killed, no rights of the accused, Justified buy general will

Jacobins

Radical political club

Girondins

more moderate, feared paris mobs

The Mountain

radical, supported sans-culottes

Sans-culottes

Working-class men and women in Revolutionary France who wore long trousers instead of the knee breeches of the aristocracy.

Directory

eun by 5 men, weak and corrupt, relied on the army to hold power

Emigres

Nobles and others who fled France during the Revolution to escape persecution.

De-Christinanzation

closed churches, priest encouraged to marry, new republic calender( no sunday, year one), Noter Dame became the temple of reason

Civil Constitution of the clergy

made church part of the state, Bishops and preist elected by people, clergy payed by state, church became ememy of the revolution

Declaration of the rights of man and the citizen

foundation of the revolutioin, influenced by enlightened thinkers, guaranteed natural rights

Sovereignty

Belongs to the National assembly (The power of a state to govern itself without external interference.)