Introduction to French Rev. Crossword

4. Inequality between the estates and resentment of privileges held by the clergy and nobility.
5. New system of laws created by Napoleon that guaranteed equality before the law.
11. Pledge by the National Assembly to create a new constitution after being locked out of the Estates General.
12. Enlightenment thinker who argued government must follow the general will of the people.
13. Clergy in France; less than 1% of the population; paid no taxes.
15. Group led by Robespierre that carried out the Reign of Terror.
17. July 14, 1789; revolutionaries stormed a prison; symbol of the start of the French Revolution.
18. Enlightenment thinker who promoted natural rights and government by consent of the governed.
19. Military general who rose to power after the Revolution, reformed taxes, banking, and law (Napoleonic Code).
20. Period of new ideas in the 1600s-1700s that stressed reason, equality, and questioning authority.
21. Banking system created by Napoleon to stabilize the economy.
24. Meeting of European leaders after Napoleon's defeat to restore balance of power.
27. First form of representative government formed by the Third Estate to make laws for the French people.
29. Period when thousands were executed by guillotine under Robespierre and the Committee of Public Safety.
30. Revolutionary document influenced by Enlightenment ideas; declared equality and protected rights.

1. Nobility; wealthy landowners with privileges; paid no taxes.
2. Enlightenment writer who defended freedom of speech and religion.
3. Absolute monarchy, unfair voting in the Estates General, Enlightenment ideas about government.
6. Debt from wars, high taxes on the Third Estate, and poor harvests leading to food shortages.
7. Economist who supported free markets and natural laws of economics.
8. Assembly of representatives from all three estates; called to address taxes but was unfair to the Third Estate.
9. Period of panic and peasant uprisings against nobles in the countryside.
10. Everyone else (peasants, workers, middle class); 97% of population; paid nearly all the taxes.
14. Queen of France, nicknamed 'Madame Deficit' for her spending; executed in 1793.
16. Enlightenment thinker who believed in separation of powers in government.
22. Rights Enlightenment belief that all people are born with rights such as life, liberty, and property.
23. Execution device used during the Revolution, considered quick and 'equal'.
25. Contract Rousseau's idea that governments should be based on an agreement between rulers and the people.
26. Radical revolutionary who ruled violently during the Reign of Terror.
28. French king during the Revolution; weak and indecisive, executed in 1793.