The French Revolution

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Across
  1. 3. Members of the Paris Commune called themselves this and would wear long trousers instead of knee-length
  2. 7. Delegates pledged to meet continually until the constitution was drafted
  3. 9. built up due war and lead to high prices on goods
  4. 10. made of majority of the 2nd estate
  5. 12. the phrase keened by Marie-Antoinette when she learned that bread was too expensive for the lower castes to purchase
  6. 15. A 12-member group of people formed to deal with threats to France and had almost absolute power during the revolution
  7. 16. set of ideas that inspired the Revolution
  8. 19. Name for the educated middle class of France
  9. 21. A successful and popular general who overthrew the government in 1799
  10. 24. Neither the clergy nor the nobles had to pay this tax also known as the France chief tax
  11. 25. the name of the era following the French Revolution that resulted in many people getting beheaded
  12. 27. the Freedom of ____________ allowed for people to speak their mind and not get persecuted
  13. 28. the French _____ was on the verge of collapse with the absurd amount of debt and not much money actually going into the government
  14. 29. the name for the 3 orders of class in France
  15. 30. 2% of people and owned 25% of the land
Down
  1. 1. a panic the threatened the safety of peasants all across France
  2. 2. An old prison in Paris
  3. 4. A device used throughout the Revolution and the Reign of Terror to execute those by cutting off their head
  4. 5. 97% of the people and owned 65% of the land
  5. 6. presented equality to all groups in France and made everyone pay taxes
  6. 8. female ruler of Old France and wife of the king
  7. 11. male ruler of Old France
  8. 13. 1% of people and owned 10% of the land
  9. 14. the Freedom of _____________ allowed for people to practice this whenever, wherever, and not get persecuted.
  10. 17. the concept that you stayed in the class you were born in
  11. 18. made of majority of 3rd estate
  12. 20. what the 3rd estate wanted in the government along with the abolishment of the higher-class veto
  13. 22. made up the majority of the 1st estate
  14. 23. general of finance under King Louis XVI and proposed the shift of taxes from poor to rich, but was refused
  15. 26. Group of people that drafted a constitution for France