American Revolution Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. A sudden overthrow of the government by a small group
  2. 3. social classes in France before the French Revolution; the 1st estate 0.5% the 2nd estate 2% the 3rd estate everybody else
  3. 5. people who take extreme political positions
  4. 8. Radical republicans during the French Revolution. They were led by Maximilien Robespierre from 1793 to 1794.
  5. 10. A written plan of government
  6. 13. Radical Phase that sent many to the guillotine. Led by Robespierre.
  7. 15. A group of representatives that makes laws for a nation
  8. 16. July 14, 1789; members of the 3rd Estate demand guns and ammunition; troops open fire; the Bastille, a fortress in Paris used as a prison is stormed; this begins the French Revolution
Down
  1. 1. national razor-used heavily in the Reign of Terror
  2. 4. the right and the power of a person or a nation to govern themselves
  3. 6. An assembly that represented the entire French population through three groups, known as estates; King Louis XVI called this in May 1789 to discuss the financial crises.
  4. 7. The July 20,1789 pledge by the third estate (the National Assembly) to create a new constitution
  5. 9. a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.
  6. 11. The wealthiest members of the Third Estate- lawyers, doctors, etc.
  7. 12. group formed by the Third Estate to write a new constitution
  8. 14. A wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille in 1789