French revolution

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  1. 4. Lists of grievances written by the people. They asked for only moderate changes.
  2. 6. Used as a state prison by King Louis XVI. The revolutionaries who stormed this prison in Paris on July 14th 1789.
  3. 9. He executed King Louis XVI because he was convicted of treason
  4. 10. The new executive branch established by the constitution written during the moderate Thermidorian Reaction of 1794–1795. The Directory was appointed by the legislative assembly.
  5. 11. The political and social system that existed in France before the French Revolution of 1789
  6. 12. The body that replaced the Legislative Assembly following a successful election in 1792. As one of its first actions
  7. 13. The radical wing of representatives in the National Convention, named for their secret meeting place in the Jacobin Club, in an abandoned Paris monastery.
  8. 15. a legislative body; the gathering of a political or social group.
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  1. 1. A wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille in 1789.
  2. 2. when someone is spending more money than they have.
  3. 3. He became the leader of the French monarchy in 1774. After his marriage to Marie Antoinette, they lived in the extravagant Palace of Versailles, and they ruled at a time when France did not have much money.
  4. 5. Clergy, nobility and commoners.
  5. 7. a government in which power is vested in a minority; governing body or upper class usually made up of hereditary nobility.
  6. 8. instrument for inflicting capital punishment by decapitation. It was introduced into France in 1792 during the Revolution.
  7. 14. the middle class in a society.