French Revolution

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Across
  1. 2. A wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille in 1789. A period in July and August 1789 during which rural peasants revolted against their feudal landlords and wreaked havoc in the French countryside.
  2. 4. a government in which power is vested in a minority; governing body or upper class usually made up of hereditary nobility.
  3. 8. the middle class in a society.
  4. 9. the name given to the moderates in the National Convention. The Girondins controlled the legislative assembly until 1793, when, with the war going poorly and food shortages hurting French peasants, the Jacobins ousted them from power.
  5. 11. He executed King Louis XVI because he was convicted of treason. Under his advice, the committee of public safety came to control France.
  6. 13. a legislative body; the gathering of a political or social group.
  7. 14. Used as a state prison by King Louis XVI. The revolutionaries who stormed this prison in Paris on July 14th 1789.
  8. 16. when someone is spending more money than they have.
Down
  1. 1. Nobles and others who fled France during the peasant uprisings.
  2. 3. The political and social system that existed in France before the French Revolution of 1789.
  3. 5. Clergy, nobility and commoners.
  4. 6. Lists of grievances written by the people. They asked for only moderate changes.
  5. 7. The new executive branch established by the constitution written during the moderate Thermidorian Reaction of 1794–1795. The Directory was appointed by the legislative assembly. However, after 1797 election results proved unfavorable to elements in the Directory, it orchestrated an overthrow of the assembly and maintained dubious control over France until it was overthrown by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1799.
  6. 10. The radical wing of representatives in the National Convention, named for their secret meeting place in the Jacobin Club, in an abandoned Paris monastery. Led by Maximilien Robespierre, the Jacobins called for democratic solutions to France’s problems and spoke for the urban poor and French peasantry. The Jacobins took control of the convention, and France itself, from 1793 to 1794. As Robespierre became increasingly concerned with counterrevolutionary threats, he instituted a brutal period of public executions known as the Reign of Terror.
  7. 12. Urban workers and peasants, whose name—literally, “without culottes,” the knee-breeches that the privileged wore, signified their wish to distinguish themselves from the high classes. The mob mentality of the sans- culottes constituted the most radical element of the Revolution. A group made up of Parisian wage earners and small shopkeepers who wanted a greater voice in government, lower prices and an end of food shortages.
  8. 15. He became the leader of the French monarchy in 1774. After his marriage to Marie Antoinette, they lived in the extravagant Palace of Versailles, and they ruled at a time when France did not have much money.