French Revolution

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Across
  1. 5. series of alliances to help prevent revolution.
  2. 6. revolutionary leader who tried to wipe out every trace of France’s past monarchy and nobility.
  3. 9. French congress established by representatives of the Third Estate
  4. 10. military leader who seized power in France coup d’état sudden takeover of a government.
  5. 11. A medieval representative institution in France that had not met for 175 years before King Louis XVI reconvened it on May 5, 1789,
  6. 12. Spanish peasant fighter
  7. 13. The middle and upper classes of French society
  8. 16. defeat of Napoleon’s forces at sea.
  9. 17. member of the Jacobin Club, a radical political organization.
  10. 19. radical group of Parisian wage-earners.
  11. 23. promise made by Third Estate representatives to draw up a new constitution
  12. 26. league formed by Russia, Austria, and Prussia
  13. 27. system of feudalismestate social class of people
  14. 29. Napoleon’s policy of preventing trade and communication between Great Britain and other European nations.
  15. 30. machine for beheading people.
  16. 32. of panicLegislative Assembly assembly that replaced the National Assembly in 1791
  17. 33. of representatives from all three estates
  18. 34. Napoleon’s last bid for power, which ended at Waterloo
  19. 35. complete set of laws set up by Napoleon that eliminated many injustices.
Down
  1. 1. key leader at the Congress of Vienna
  2. 2. government-run public school.
  3. 3. policy of burning fields and slaughtering livestock so that enemy troops would find nothing to eat
  4. 4. forced closing of ports
  5. 7. The form of government, common to most European countries at the time of the French Revolution National
  6. 8. meetings in Vienna for the purpose of restoring order to europe
  7. 14. battle in Belgium that was Napoleon’s final defeat
  8. 15. unpopular queen; wife of Louis XVI
  9. 18. of power condition in which no one country becomes a threat to another legitimacy bringing back to power the kings that Napoleon had driven out
  10. 20. weak king who came to French throne in 1774
  11. 21. vote by the people.
  12. 22. war that Napoleon fought in Spain
  13. 24. agreement.
  14. 25. A large armory and state prison in the center of Paris
  15. 28. other person who left France during the peasant uprisings and who hoped to come back to restore the old system.
  16. 31. period of Robespierre’s rule.