French Revolution
Across
- 2. The church was the …
- 7. Queen of France; from the royal family of Austria.
- 9. King of France; first king to be taken from power.
- 11. The political and social system of France.
- 16. A statement of revolutionary ideals adopted by France’s National Assembly in1789.
- 18. one of the three social classes of France.
- 19. A French congress with the power to create laws and approve declarations of war, established by the constitution of 1791.
- 20. 98% of the population.
Down
- 1. An oath taken by the Third Estate delegates to stay until they had drawn up a new constitution.
- 3. War hero and dictator of France for a time.
- 4. A French Congress established by representatives of the Third Estate on June 17,1789,to enact laws and reforms in the name of the French people.
- 5. Napoleon’s policy for preventing trade between Great Britain and continental Europe.
- 6. Made up of rich nobles.
- 8. a period when thousands of political and ordinary citizens were executed.
- 10. Ruled during the Reign of Terror.
- 12. A wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille in 1789.
- 13. A machine for beheading people.
- 14. An assembly of representatives from all three of the estates, or social classes, in France.
- 15. People who leave their native country for political reasons.
- 17. A comprehensive and uniform system of laws established for France by Napoleon.