French Revolution
Across
- 2. promise made by Third Estate representatives to draw up a new constitution
- 4. machine for beheading people
- 8. Spanish peasant fighter
- 12. bringing back to power the kings that Napoleon had driven out
- 13. condition in which no one country becomes a threat to another
- 14. forced closing of ports
- 15. government-run public school
- 17. complete set of laws set up by Napoleon that eliminated many injustices
- 19. member of the Jacobin Club, a radical political organization
- 21. wave of panic
- 22. radical group of Parisian wage-earners
- 25. battle in Belgium that was Napoleon’s final defeat
- 28. assembly of representatives from all three estates
- 31. agreement
- 32. weak king who came to French throne in 1774
- 33. revolutionary leader who tried to wipe out every trace of France’s past monarchy and nobility
- 34. noble or other person who left France during the peasant uprisings and who hoped to come back to restore the old system
Down
- 1. assembly that replaced the National Assembly in 1791
- 3. meetings in Vienna for the purpose of restoring order to Europe
- 5. vote by the people
- 6. unpopular queen; wife of Louis XVI
- 7. Napoleon’s last bid for power, which ended at Waterloo
- 9. sudden takeover of a government
- 10. French congress established by representatives of the Third State
- 11. military leader who seized power in France
- 16. series of alliances to help prevent revolution
- 18. social class of people
- 20. key leader at the Congress of Vienna
- 23. Napoleon’s policy of preventing trade and communication
- 24. British defeat of Napoleon’s forces at sea
- 26. period of Robespierre’s rule
- 27. system of feudalism
- 29. league formed by Russia, Austria, and Prussia
- 30. System Napoleon’s policy of preventing trade and communication between Great Britain and other European nations