The Journey of the French Revolution

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  1. 2. of Terror/A ten-month period of oppression and execution from late 1793 to mid-1794.
  2. 6. of 1791/ The new French constitution that in 1791 established a constitutional monarchy, or limited monarchy, with all executive power answerable to a legislative assembly.
  3. 7. Estate/One of the three estates in the Estates-General, consisting of the commoners of France, whether rich merchants or poor peasants.
  4. 10. The wife of King Louis XVI
  5. 11. large armory and state prison in the center of Paris that a mob of sans-culottes sacked on July 14, 1789
  6. 12. royal palace built by King Louis XIV a few miles outside of Paris.
  7. 13. Reaction/The post–Reign of Terror period ushered in by the execution of Maximilien Robespierre in July 1794 and the reassertion of moderate power over the French Revolution
  8. 14. radical wing of representatives in the National Convention, named for their secret meeting place in the Jacobin Club, in an abandoned Paris monastery.
  9. 16. a state of armed conflict between different nations or states or different groups within a nation or state.
  10. 17. Fear/A period in July and August 1789 during which rural peasants revolted against their feudal landlords and wreaked havoc in the French countryside.
  11. 18. Bonaparte/ Military general and first emperor of France.
  12. 20. Court Oath/A June 20, 1789, oath sworn by members of the Third Estate who had just formed the National Assembly and were locked out of the meeting of the Estates-General.
Down
  1. 1. new executive branch established by the constitution written during the moderate Thermidorian Reaction of 1794–1795..
  2. 3. XVI/ The French king from 1774 to 1792 who was deposed during the French Revolution and executed in 1793.
  3. 4. middle and upper classes of French society who, as members of the Third Estate
  4. 5. form of government, common to most European countries at the time of the French Revolution, in which one king or queen, from a designated royal dynasty, holds control over policy and has the final say on all such matters.
  5. 8. workers and peasants, whose name—literally, “without culottes.
  6. 9. name given to the moderates in the National Convention
  7. 15. Assembly/The name given to the Third Estate after it separated from the Estates-General in 1789.
  8. 19. Monarchy/Also known as constitutional monarchy, a system of government in which a king or queen reigns as head of state but with power that is limited by real power lying in a legislature and an independent court system.