Napoleon and the French Revolution extra credit puzzle -- Bentley Hansen

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  1. 5. A direct vote in which the country's people have the opportunity to approve or reject a proposal.
  2. 8. The use of troops or ships to prevent commercial traffic from entering or leaving a city or region.
  3. 9. A series of meetings in 1814-1815, during which the European leaders sought to establish long-lasting peace and security after the defeat of Napoleon.
  4. 11. The three social classes in France before the French Revolution - the First Estate consisting of the clergy, the Second Estate consisting of the nobility, and the Third Estate consisting of the rest of the population.
  5. 12. A formal agreement - especially one between the pop and a government - dealing with the control of Church affairs.
  6. 13. Napoleon's policy of preventing trade between Great Britain and Continental Europe, intended to destroy Great Britain's economy.
  7. 17. A government-run public school in France.
  8. 19. A village in Belgium where the last battle Napoleon fought took place, the allies finally won and exiled Napoleon.
  9. 21. Most people involved in government changes were members of the Jacobin radical political organization.
  10. 24. Louis XVI's wife who was very unpopular among the people because of her excessive spending and involvement in controversial court affairs. She dressed in loose fitting cotton dresses opposite of the tight fitting silk dress style. She also had a gambling problem and gave Louis bad advice.
  11. 26. A conflict, lasting from 1808 to 1813, in which Spanish rebels, with the aid of British forces, fought to drive Napoleon's French troops out of Spain.
  12. 28. The most influential representative at the Congress of Vienna. He wanted to prevent future French aggression by surrounding it with strong countries, restore a balance of power, and restore Europe's royal families to their thrones.
  13. 30. An 1805 naval battle in which Napoleon's forces were defeated by a British fleet under the command of Horatio Nelson.
  14. 31. A member of a loosely organized fighting force that made surprise attacks on enemy troops occupying his or her country.
  15. 32. A league of European nations formed by the leaders of Russia, Austria, and Prussia after the Congress of Vienna.
  16. 33. A French congress with the power to create laws and approve declarations of war, established by the Constitution of 1791.
  17. 34. A person who leaves their native country for political reasons, like the nobles and others who fled France during the peasant uprisings of the French Revolution.
  18. 35. A wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille in 1789.
Down
  1. 1. 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.
  2. 2. In the French Revolution, a radical group made up of Parisian wage-earners and small shopkeepers who wanted a greater voice in government, lower prices, and an end to food shortages.
  3. 3. The political and social system that existed in France before the French Revolution.
  4. 4. The brief period during 1815 when Napoleon made his last bid for power, deposing the French king and again becoming emperor of France.
  5. 6. A sudden seizure of political power in a nation.
  6. 7. A pledge made by the members of France's National Assembly in 1789 to enact laws and reforms in the name of the French people.
  7. 10. A comprehensive and uniform system of laws established for France by Napoleon.
  8. 14. An assembly of representatives from all three of the estates
  9. 15. The hereditary right of a monarch to rule.
  10. 16. The practice of burning crops and killing livestock during wartime so that the enemy cannot live off the land.
  11. 18. The ruthless dictator for a period in the French Revolution. He had people executed just for not being a part of the revolution. He even killed some of those closest to him.
  12. 20. The period, from mid-1794, when Maximilien Robespierre ruled France nearly as a dictator and thousands of political figures and ordinary citizens were executed.
  13. 22. A series of alliances among European nations in the 19th century, devised by Klemens von Metternick to prevent the outbreak of revolutions.
  14. 23. A political situation in which no one nation is powerful enough to pose a threat to others.
  15. 25. He was born in 1769 and as a military school graduate, took control of France in 1799. He put European wars to an end and started to restore order in France after the revolution.
  16. 27. A machine for beheading people, used as a means of execution during the French Revolution.
  17. 29. A weak ruler of France who was indecisive and allowed matters to drift. He paid little attention to his governing duties and had very little patience for them. He continued to sink the country deeper into debt and didm't deal with the issue until he had almost no money left.