Review of the French Revolution

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Across
  1. 8. Ultimately, Louis XVI, his wife, Marie Antionette, and Robespierre were all _____.
  2. 9. The motto of the French Revolutionaries was ___, equality, and fraternity
  3. 11. only the 3rd Estate paid these
  4. 16. the term for the removal of all evidence of the influence of the Church in French society
  5. 17. the number of houses in the legislative branch of the Directory
  6. 19. this Oath was made by the National Assembly to the people of France
  7. 21. in pre-revolutionary France, the number of votes each Estate received
  8. 22. King Louis XVI was acting as this type of monarch prior to the revolution in France
  9. 24. leader of the Committee on Public Safety that launched the Reign of Terror
  10. 26. the people “stormed” this place to gather arms (guns mostly) to defend the National Assembly from the threat of Louis XVI’s military
  11. 27. the pre-revolutionary advisory body to the king that was made up of all 3 estates
Down
  1. 1. the Enlightenment thinker most specifically concerned with freedom of expression and the separation of church and state
  2. 2. Enlightenment thinker who advocated for the “general Will” and who said because man can govern himself, the only job of the government is to do what the people say
  3. 3. the number of people men who were a part of the executive branch of the Directory
  4. 4. killing machine used to slice off people’s heads
  5. 5. king of pre-revolutionary France
  6. 6. once the king was executed, and France was no longer a monarchy, it became this type of government
  7. 7. The government that took over after the Reign of Terror
  8. 10. estate made up of the Catholic clergy (officials of the Church such as bishops)
  9. 12. the type of monarchy created by the first constitution of revolutionary France
  10. 13. estate made up of the nobles
  11. 14. Created by the 3rd Estate and claimed to be the true representative government of the people
  12. 15. the Enlightenment thinker who advocated for the separation of powers because absolute power corrupts absolutely
  13. 18. the percent of the population that belonged to the 3rd Estate in pre-revolutionary France
  14. 20. estate made up of peasants, laborers and the middle class
  15. 23. the Enlightenment thinker who said men are born with God-given natural rights, and the abuse of those rights meant the people had a right and duty to create a new government
  16. 25. This reign was the period of the French Revolution that was full of bloodshed due to wars with foreign nations and mass executions