The Great Fear and August Decrees
Across
- 3. What conspiracy theory said that the famine was orchestrated by the nobility to assert control?
- 5. What historian proposed the possible causes of the Great Fear in their seminal work "The Great Fear of 1789"?
- 8. Feudalism was a foundational element of what traditional political system?
- 11. What was the name of the club where the idea to abolish feudalism originated?
- 12. An epidemic of what rye-fungus may have contributed to the hysteria of the Great Fear as well as the Salem witch trials of 1692?
- 16. Who did the National Assembly appoint as Commander of the National Guard?
- 18. Which notable royal left the country in the wake of the storming of the Bastille?
- 20. What infamous radical group did the Breton club eventually form?
- 21. What did peasants ransack and torch during their revolt as a symbol of feudalism?
- 22. What church payments were abolished by the August decrees?
Down
- 1. What was the French term for the wave of panic that swept the countryside in late July and early August 1789?
- 2. Who was the king's youngest brother who fled Versailles, sparking fears of a foreign invasion?
- 4. Who was rumored to be planning to poison the king and replace him with the king's brother?
- 6. What were the August Decrees aimed to abolish?
- 7. The August Decrees embodied ideals of liberty, equality and what?
- 9. To which French royal dynasty did Louis XVI belong?
- 10. To which Austrian royal dynasty did Marie Antoinette belong?
- 13. An eruption of the Laki volcano in what country contributed to reduced harvests in 1785?
- 14. What was the nickname for the salt tax collectors contracted by the French government?
- 15. Which major bread riot occurred in France in 1775?
- 17. What were the peasants reclaiming when they invaded seigneurial estates during the revolt?
- 19. What percentage of their income were the poorest spending solely on bread by 1789?