French Revolution

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Across
  1. 2. military leader who seized power in France coup d’état sudden takeover of a government.
  2. 8. weak king who came to French throne in 1774
  3. 10. Napoleon’s policy of preventing trade and communication between Great Britain and other European nations.
  4. 11. government-run public school.
  5. 13. war that Napoleon fought in Spain
  6. 17. French congress established by representatives of the Third Estate
  7. 21. league formed by Russia, Austria, and Prussia
  8. 22. complete set of laws set up by Napoleon that eliminated many injustices.
  9. 24. The middle and upper classes of French society
  10. 25. 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
  11. 29. unpopular queen; wife of Louis XVI
  12. 31. defeat of Napoleon’s forces at sea.
  13. 33. other person who left France during the peasant uprisings and who hoped to come back to restore the old system.
  14. 34. A medieval representative institution in France that had not met for 175 years before King Louis XVI reconvened it on May 5, 1789,
  15. 35. policy of burning fields and slaughtering livestock so that enemy troops would find nothing to eat
  16. 36. meetings in Vienna for the purpose of restoring order to europe
  17. 37. member of the Jacobin Club, a radical political organization.
Down
  1. 1. radical group of Parisian wage-earners.
  2. 3. of panicLegislative Assembly assembly that replaced the National Assembly in 1791
  3. 4. A large armory and state prison in the center of Paris
  4. 5. series of alliances to help prevent revolution.
  5. 6. revolutionary leader who tried to wipe out every trace of France’s past monarchy and nobility.
  6. 7. forced closing of ports
  7. 9. battle in Belgium that was Napoleon’s final defeat
  8. 12. A set of thirteen provincial judicial boards
  9. 14. machine for beheading people.
  10. 15. Napoleon’s last bid for power, which ended at Waterloo
  11. 16. key leader at the Congress of Vienna
  12. 18. promise made by Third Estate representatives to draw up a new constitution
  13. 19. system of feudalismestate social class of people
  14. 20. The form of government, common to most European countries at the time of the French Revolution 1792
  15. 23. Spanish peasant fighter
  16. 26. The palace in Paris in which King Louis XVI and his family were placed under house arrest
  17. 27. of representatives from all three estates
  18. 28. agreement.
  19. 30. period of Robespierre’s rule.
  20. 32. vote by the people.