How much do you know about the French Revolution ?
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- 9. Long pants that French Revolutionaries wore. This dress represented the working class. They were a radical group made up of wage-earners, and small shopkeepers who wanted a greater voice in government, lower prices, and an end of food shortages
- 11. middle class, members of the third estate, educated professionals, possibly worked in banking or industry
- 13. The last battle of Napoleon where he met his defeat
- 14. Radical political groups in Paris organized a mob attack on the royal palace and Legislative Assembly.
- 15. Liberty, Property, Security and resistance to oppression these natural rights were stated in the declaration of the Rights of mAn and of the Citizen
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- 1. Radical republicans during the French Revolution. They were led by Maximilien Robespierre
- 2. A French jail
- 3. THE RIGHT TO VOTE
- 4. Overthrew French Directory in 1799 and became emperor of the French in 1804. Failed to defeat Great Britain and abdicated in 1814.
- 5. Describes rule under the Committee of Public Safety in which the committee instituted a systematic policy of curbing violence through frequent and mass execution in the interest of suppressing counterrevolutionary tendencies
- 6. Queen of France (as wife of Louis XVI) who was unpopular her extravagance and opposition to reform contributed to the overthrow of the monarchy; she was guillotined along with her husband
- 7. A form of government in which the people select representatives to govern them and make laws.
- 8. Earth centered
- 10. Tax on poverty and land
- 12. one who has a strong opinion on an issue