Introduction to the French Revolution crossword

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  1. 4. of the Rights of Man Revolutionary document influenced by Enlightenment ideas; declared equality and protected rights.
  2. 8. Locke Enlightenment thinker who promoted natural rights and government by consent of the governed.
  3. 9. Estate Everyone else (peasants, workers, middle class); 97% of population; paid nearly all the taxes.
  4. 10. XVI French king during the Revolution; weak and indecisive, executed in 1793.
  5. 12. Period of new ideas in the 1600s-1700s that stressed reason, equality, and questioning authority.
  6. 16. Rights Enlightenment belief that all people are born with rights such as life, liberty, and property.
  7. 17. of Public Safety Group led by Robespierre that carried out the Reign of Terror.
  8. 21. Bonaparte Military general who rose to power after the Revolution, reformed taxes, banking, and law (Napoleonic Code).
  9. 22. Causes Debt from wars, high taxes on the Third Estate, and poor harvests leading to food shortages.
  10. 23. Contract Rousseau's idea that governments should be based on an agreement between rulers and the people.
  11. 24. Estate Clergy in France; less than 1% of the population; paid no taxes.
  12. 25. General Assembly of representatives from all three estates; called to address taxes but was unfair to the Third Estate.
  13. 26. Execution device used during the Revolution, considered quick and 'equal'.
  14. 27. Enlightenment thinker who believed in separation of powers in government.
  15. 28. Court Oath Pledge by the National Assembly to create a new constitution after being locked out of the Estates General.
  16. 29. of Vienna Meeting of European leaders after Napoleon's defeat to restore balance of power.
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  1. 1. Estate Nobility; wealthy landowners with privileges; paid no taxes.
  2. 2. Enlightenment writer who defended freedom of speech and religion.
  3. 3. Bank of France Banking system created by Napoleon to stabilize the economy.
  4. 5. Great Fear Period of panic and peasant uprisings against nobles in the countryside.
  5. 6. Code New system of laws created by Napoleon that guaranteed equality before the law.
  6. 7. Causes Absolute monarchy, unfair voting in the Estates General, Enlightenment ideas about government.
  7. 11. Rousseau Enlightenment thinker who argued government must follow the general will of the people.
  8. 13. Assembly First form of representative government formed by the Third Estate to make laws for the French people.
  9. 14. of Terror Period when thousands were executed by guillotine under Robespierre and the Committee of Public Safety.
  10. 15. Smith Economist who supported free markets and natural laws of economics.
  11. 18. Causes Inequality between the estates and resentment of privileges held by the clergy and nobility.
  12. 19. Antoinette Queen of France, nicknamed 'Madame Deficit' for her spending; executed in 1793.
  13. 20. Radical revolutionary who ruled violently during the Reign of Terror.
  14. 23. of the Bastille July 14, 1789; revolutionaries stormed a prison; symbol of the start of the French Revolution.