Key Terms-French Revolution (ALL WORDS)

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Socially or politically privileged class whose titles are given by inheritance or royal decree

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Nobility

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Severe or general scarcity of food in a region, often the result of crop failure, resulting in extreme hunger, starvation, and death

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Famine

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Government in which the ruler has unlimited power and authority over her or his people

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Absolutism

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Person with extreme views, favoring sweeping economic, political, or social change

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Radical

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Form of government in which a state is ruled by representatives of the citizens

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Republic

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Person or group that does not want to change existing conditions

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Conservative

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Persons who do not hold extreme political views

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Moderate

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The right to vote

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Suffrage

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In the Middle Ages, one of the three large social classes: nobles, commoners, or clergy

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Estate

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Mode or system of rule or government; ruling or prevailing system; a planned way of doing things, especially one imposed from above

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Regime