The French Revolution

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Across
  1. 5. A high-ranking social class determined by birth. In France, the Second Estate.
  2. 6. Living in a city
  3. 10. A financial charge imposed upon a taxpayer by a state to fund various public expenditures.
  4. 11. Favoring drastic political, economical, or social reforms.
  5. 12. belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God.
  6. 14. A movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of reason in the reevaluation of accepted ideas.
  7. 16. Freedom
  8. 18. Brotherhood. A group of society formed by people who share common interests
  9. 19. A series of alliances among European nations in the 19th century, devised by Prince Klemens von Metternich to prevent the outbreak of wars or revolutions.
  10. 20. A person who is moderate in opinion or opposed to extreme views and actions, especially in politics.
  11. 21. Form of government in which the king/queen has all of the power.
  12. 27. A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizen who can elect people to represent them.
  13. 28. the political and social system that existed in France before the French Revolution.
  14. 29. pre-revolutionary social class in France.
Down
  1. 1. A political viewpoint disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc.,or to restore traditional ones.
  2. 2. A sweeping change.
  3. 3. of Terror Radical phase and period of violence after the onset of the French Revolution. (1793-1794)
  4. 4. French middle class
  5. 7. The distribution of military and economic power that prevents any one nation from becoming too strong.
  6. 8. Meeting of representatives of European monarchs called to reestablish the old order after the defeat of Napoleon.
  7. 9. The guiding principle of the human mind in the process of thinking. The mental powers concerned with forming conclusions and judgments.
  8. 13. A machine for beheading people, used as a means of execution during the French Revolution.
  9. 15. A member of a class of persons who are small farmers or farm laborers of low social rank.
  10. 17. The use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims
  11. 19. Church officials. In France, the First Estate
  12. 22. The hereditary right of a monarch to rule.
  13. 23. 97% of the population in France. They consisted of the Bourgeoisie, the urban workers and the peasants; they paid high taxes and had no special privileges.
  14. 24. Assembly A French congress established by representatives of the Third Estate on June 17, 1789, to enact laws and reforms in the name of the French people.
  15. 25. The sudden overthrow of a government by force.
  16. 26. The state of being equal, especially in status, rights, and opportunities.