French Revolution Key Terms by Cate Thornbury

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Across
  1. 1. The First Estate, seen as the closest to God, and worked for the Church.
  2. 3. A town 12 miles outside of Paris, where the King had his palace.
  3. 5. A French lawyer and radical who called for blood and was executed after the Reign of Terror.
  4. 7. An oath taken at a tennis court by deputies of the third estate saying that they would not stop meeting until a new constitution was formed.
  5. 8. A beheading machine invented by a doctor for quick, easy deaths.
  6. 9. A weak 5-member board that took over after the Reign of Terror.
  7. 10. A political system in which the King has total power.
  8. 11. The French word for "Middle Class."
  9. 13. A movement of new ideas on equality and government.
  10. 15. The Queen of France during the Revolution.
  11. 18. The King of France during the revolution.
  12. 19. The capitol of France.
Down
  1. 1. A quick, illegal takeover of the government.
  2. 2. A document stating the rights of the French people.
  3. 4. An assembly of all of the Estates who met separately and then convened, and were succeeded by the National Assembly.
  4. 6. A 12-month period in which the committee of Public Safety ruled, and executed all people suspected of aiding the King.
  5. 12. A prison located in the center of Paris that was stormed by revolutionaries for weapons.
  6. 14. A military general who took over the government in a coup in 1799.
  7. 16. The extremists of the French Revolution.
  8. 17. The 3-part organization of French people, like a caste system.