The French Revolution
Across
- 3. A ruler or other person who holds absolute power, typically one who exercises it in a cruel or oppressive way.
- 4. Advocating complete political or social reform; representing or supporting an extreme section of a political party.
- 5. Holding to traditional attitudes and values and cautious about change or innovation, typically in relation to politics or religion.
- 7. A sudden, often violent and illegal, seizure of power from a government.
- 8. A member of a small independent group taking part in irregular fighting, typically against larger regular forces.
- 9. A state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.
- 10. Someone who is not extreme in their political beliefs.
Down
- 1. An agreement by members of a society to sacrifice some individual freedom for more state protection.
- 2. The introduction of a serum or a vaccine into the body of a person as a means to produce or boost immunity to a specific disease.
- 6. The direct vote of all the members of an electorate on an important public question such as a change in the constitution.