FRENCH REVOLUTION

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Across
  1. 5. Nobles and others who fled France during the peasant uprising
  2. 6. It brought the Revolution’s focus back to the first stage of moderate changes designed to benefit the business classes of French society.
  3. 8. A June 20, 1789, oath sworn by members of the Third Estate who had just formed the National Assembly, meeting at a nearby tennis court, these members of the pledged to remain together until they had drafted and passed a new constitution.
  4. 11. name given to the moderates in the National Convention, controlled the legislative assembly until 1793, when the Jacobins ousted them from power.
  5. 13. lists of grievances written by the people.
  6. 14. The radical wing of representatives in the National Convention. Led by Maximilien. Called for democratic solutions to France’s problems...
  7. 16. a government in which power is vested in a minority
  8. 17. New executive branch established by the constitution written during the moderate Thermidorian Reaction. Was appointed by the legislative assembly.
  9. 18. political and social system that existed before the French Revolution
  10. 20. extreme radical republic in France at the time of the Revolution
  11. 21. The French congress established by representatives of the Third Estate on June 7, 1789 4 to enact reforms in the name of the French people. It claimed to legitimately represent the French population.
Down
  1. 1. Period from 1793 to 1794 when Maximillen Robespierre ruled France nearly as dictator and thousands of political figures and ordinary citizens were executed. Ended with the fall of Robespierre, who was arrested and executed in July 1794.
  2. 2. middle class in a society
  3. 3. A committee established to identify “enemies of the republic”. Although the committee led off its tenure with an impressive war effort and economy-saving initiatives.
  4. 4. One of the three social classes in France before the French Revolution. A medieval representative institution in France that had not met for 175 years before King Louis XVI reconvened it on May 5, 1789, to deal with the looming financial crisis.
  5. 7. those who wished to see significant, far-reaching changes in the political and social system of France
  6. 9. Right wing; upheld the idea of a limited monarchy, wanted some changes in the government
  7. 10. replaced the Legislative Assembly following a successful election in 1792. The convention declared the French monarchy abolished on September 21, 1792, and on the following day declared France a republic.
  8. 12. system of government in which the ruler has unlim-ited power
  9. 15. centrist wanted some changes in the government
  10. 19. a legislative body