Ch. 6
Across
- 1. fortress in Paris used as a prison; French Revolution began when Parisians stormed it in 1789
- 3. the government in pre-revolution France
- 5. system of government in which officials are chosen by the people
- 8. principle by which monarchies that had been unseated by the French Revolution or Napoleon were restored
- 10. add territory to an existing state, country, or empire
- 13. popular military hero who became ruler of France
- 15. when a government spends more money than it takes in
- 17. working-class men and women who made the French Revolution more radical
- 20. dissenting groups of people
- 22. the legislative body consisting of representatives of the three estates
- 23. notebook used during the French Revolution to record grievances
- 25. the middle class
- 26. step down from power
- 27. leader of the Committee of Public Safety; chief architect of the Reign of Terror
- 29. a form of warfare using hit-and-run raids
- 30. port city in France; the French national anthem was named after it
- 31. a strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one’s country
- 32. a bladed execution device used during the French Revolution
- 33. a person who flees his or her country for political reasons
- 34. a system in which the powers of Europe met periodically to discuss any problems affecting the peace in Europe
- 35. a meeting of heads of state within Europe after Waterloo to restore stability and order in Europe
Down
- 2. the right to vote
- 4. the leader of the National Guard, a largely middle-class militia; fought alongside George Washington in the American Revolution
- 6. members of a revolutionary political club made during the French Revolution
- 7. a popular vote by ballot
- 9. an oath taken by the members of the National Assembly to meet wherever the circumstances might require until they had created a constitution
- 11. king of France from 1774 to 1792; executed in 1793
- 12. period from September 1793 to July 1794 when those who resisted the French Revolution were arrested or executed
- 14. the code of laws created under Napoleon that embodied enlightenment principles of equality, tolerance, and freedom
- 16. when the movement of an army includes burning crops and villages to make it difficult for the enemy to follow
- 18. social class
- 19. a form of economic warfare that closed European ports to British goods; the foreign policy in which Europe adopted Napoleon’s reforms
- 21. a financial advisor to Louis XVI
- 24. Austrian-born queen of France; Louis XVI’s wife
- 28. a journalist who believed that the Declaration of the Rights of Man should grant equal citizenship to women