Ch 19 Revolution in Politics

2. Led by Robespierre, the French National Convention's radical faction, which seized legislative power in 1793.
4. French civil code promulgated in 1804 that reasserted the 1789 principles of the equality of all make citizens before the law and the absolute security of wealth and private property.
6. The three legal categories, or orders, of France's inhabitants: the clergy, the nobility, and everyone else.
9. Period of time (1793-1794) during which Robespierre's Committee of Public Safety tried and executed thousands suspected of treason and a new revolutionary culture was imposed.
10. A moderate group that fought for control of the French National Convention in 1793.
11. A political club in revolutionary France whose members were well-educated racial republicans.
12. The fear of noble reprisals against peasant uprisings that seized the French countryside and led to further revolt.
13. The second phase of the French Revolution, during which the fall of the French monarchy introduced a rapid radicalization of politics.
14. The first French revolutionary legislature, made up primarily of representatives of the third estate and a few from the nobility and clergy.

1. The laboring poor of Paris, so called because the men wore trousers instead of knee breeches of the aristocracy and middle class.
3. A blockade imposed by Napoleon to halt all trade between continental Europe and Britain, thereby weakening the British economy and military.
5. A legislative body in pre-Revolutionary France made up of representatives of each of the three classes or estates.
7. A reaction to the violence of the Reign of Terror in 1794, resulting in the execution of Robespierre and the loosening of economic controls.
8. The empire over which Napoleon and his allies ruled, encompassing virtually all of Europe except Great Britain and Russia.