FRENCH REVOLUTION
Across
- 2. at the time of the Revolution.
- 3. – centrists; they wanted some changes in the government, but not as many as the radicals.
- 6. – a system of government in which the ruler has unlimited power.
- 7. of Terror - The period from 1793 to 1794 when Maximillen Robespierre ruled France nearly as dictator and thousands of political figures
- 9. of Public Safety - A committee established to identify “enemies of the republic”.
- 12. Convention - The body that replaced the Legislative Assembly following a successful election in 1792.
- 14. - A set of thirteen provincial judicial boards.
- 15. - The new executive branch established by the constitution written during the moderate Thermidorian Reaction of 1794–1795.
Down
- 1. – an extreme radical republic
- 4. – the middle class in a society.
- 5. Constitution of the Clergy – A document issued by the National Assembly in July 1790 that broke ties with the Catholic Church. It established a national church system in France. It turned many Catholics against the Revolution.
- 8. – a legislative body; the gathering of a political or social group.
- 10. – Right wing; upheld the idea limited monarchy. They wanted fewer changes government.
- 11. Regime. The political and social system that existed in France before the French Revolution of 1789.
- 13. Fear - A wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille in 1789.