The French Revolution

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Across
  1. 2. a symbolic national assembly in France
  2. 9. a person of the lower class as a landowner
  3. 12. were the townspeople who had acquired a certain level of comfort through capitalist production or trade.
  4. 14. A collection of Laws and Principles
  5. 15. Fear A spontaneous peasant uprising in France that followed the fall of Bastille in July 1789
  6. 16. A medieval fortress in Paris, France
  7. 18. is a political uprising
  8. 19. XVI was the King of France between 1754 to 1793
  9. 20. Estates was made up of nobility, and owned 30% of the land
  10. 21. A form of government in which the supreme powers of the state are exercised.
  11. 24. Inspired the American and French Revolutions
  12. 26. The state of being a slave.
Down
  1. 1. Rousseau One of the most influential thinkers of the Enlightenment
  2. 3. A legal term encompassing a number of acts that are considered betrayals of one's country and treats to its endurance
  3. 4. Locke An English philosopher who influenced the Declaration of Independence and the U.S Constitution
  4. 5. National Assembly The lower house of the bicameral French Parliament under the Fifth Republic
  5. 6. the faith, practice, and church order of the Roman Catholic Church
  6. 7. A state’s supreme authority to govern itself
  7. 8. Estates was consisted of the clergy who paid no taxes, but still owned a percentage of the land
  8. 10. is when the government is ruled by a King or Queen with unlimited power
  9. 11. is when the government is ruled by the people
  10. 13. is a from of government which sovereign power resides in the electorate
  11. 17. the state of being a serf or feudal laborer.
  12. 22. Revolution A War that gave birth to a new nation in North america, which made a turning point in history
  13. 23. Frances greatest writers and philosophers of the 18th century
  14. 25. Estate was poor agricultural people who transformed themselves into the French National Assembly