The French Revolution

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Across
  1. 1. Austrian statesman
  2. 3. noble or other person who left France during the peasant uprisings and who hoped to come back to restore the old system
  3. 6. assembly that replaced the National Assembly in 1791
  4. 7. revolutionary leader who tried to wipe out every trace of France’s past monarchy and nobility
  5. 12. a comprehensive and uniform system of laws established for France by Napoleon
  6. 14. a direct vote in which a country's people have the opportunity to aprove or reject a proposal
  7. 16. Napoleon's policy of preventing trade between Great Britain and continental Europe
  8. 17. a sudden seizure of political power in a nation
  9. 18. weak king who came to French throne in 1774
  10. 21. government-run public school in France
  11. 22. the hereditary right of a monarch to rule
  12. 23. assembly of representatives from all three estate
  13. 24. a conflict the lasted from 1808 to 1813, in which Spanish rebels, with the aid of British forces, fought to drive Napoleon's French troops out of Spain
  14. 29. an 1805 naval battle in which Napoleon's forces were defeated by a British fleet
  15. 32. French general who became emperor of France
  16. 33. member of a loosely organized fighting force that makes surprise attacks on enemy troops occupying his or her country
  17. 34. series of alliances among European nations in the 19th century
  18. 35. formal agreement, especially one between the pope and a government, dealing with the control of Church affairs
Down
  1. 2. French congress established by representatives of the Third Estate
  2. 4. brief period during 1825 when Napoleon made his last bid for power, deposing the french king and becoming emperor
  3. 5. village in Belgium where European forces defeated Napoleon in 1825
  4. 8. unpopular queen; wife of Louis XVI
  5. 9. a series of meetings in 1814-1815, during which the European leaders sought to establish peace after defeating Napoleon
  6. 10. the practice of burning crops and killing livestock during wartime so that the enemy cannot live off the land
  7. 11. period of Robespierre’s rule
  8. 13. system of feudalism
  9. 15. machine for beheading people
  10. 19. political situation in which no one in the nation is powerful enough to pose a threat to others
  11. 20. radical group of Parisian wage-earners
  12. 25. social class of people
  13. 26. wave of panic
  14. 27. member of the Jacobin Club, a radical political organization
  15. 28. promise made by Third Estate representatives to draw up a new constitution
  16. 30. the use of troops and ships to prevent commercial traffic from entering or leaving a city or region
  17. 31. league of European nations formed by the leaders of Russia, Austria and Prussia after the Congress of Vienna