WH Topic 13: French Revolution & Revolutions Sweep the West

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Across
  1. 4. the belief that people should be loyal mainly to their nation—that is, to the people with whom they share a culture and history—rather than to a king or empire.
  2. 5. the brief period during 1815 when Napoleon made his last bid for power, deposing the French king and again becoming emperor of France
  3. 9. a formal agreement - especially one between the pope and a government, dealing with the control of Church affairs
  4. 11. a political situation in which no one nation is powerful enough to pose a threat to others
  5. 13. a European who favored drastic change to extend democracy to all people
  6. 14. a sudden seizure of political power in a nation
  7. 15. the process of forcing Russian culture on all ethnic groups in the Russian Empire
  8. 16. a machine for beheading people, used as a means of execution during the French Revolution
  9. 19. a European wealthy landowner or noble who wanted to preserve the traditional monarchies of Europe
  10. 21. Napoleon's policy of preventing trade between Great Britain and continental Europe, intended to destroy Great Britain's economy
  11. 22. an early 19th-century movement in art and thought, which focused on emotion and nature rather than reason and society
  12. 23. a French congress with the power to create laws and approve declarations of war, established by the constitution of 1791.
  13. 24. the hereditary right of a monarch to rule
  14. 26. an assembly of representatives from all three of the estates in France
  15. 30. "the politics of reality"- the practice of tough power politics without room for idealism
  16. 32. a wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille in 1789
  17. 33. a movement in 19th-century painting, in which artists reacted against realism by seeking to convey their impressions of subjects or moments in time
  18. 35. a French congress established by representatives of the Third Estate to enact laws and reforms in the name of the French people
Down
  1. 1. the period when Maximilien Robespierre ruled France nearly as a dictator and thousands of political figures and ordinary citizens were executed
  2. 2. a pledge made by the members of France's National Assembly in which they vowed to continue meeting until they had drawn up a new constitution
  3. 3. member of a radical political organization during the French Revolution
  4. 6. a 19th-century artistic movement in which writers and painters sought to show life as it is rather than life as it should be
  5. 7. a direct vote in which a country's people have the opportunity to approve or reject a proposal
  6. 8. a belief that government is harmful or not needed
  7. 10. in Spanish colonial society, colonists who were born in Spain
  8. 12. a person of mixed European and African ancestry
  9. 17. a German emperor
  10. 18. in the French Revolution, a radical group made of Parisian wage-earners and small shopkeepers who wanted a greater voice in government, lower prices, and an end to food shortages
  11. 20. one of the three social classes in France before the French Revolution
  12. 23. a European middle-class business leader or merchant who wanted to give more political power to elected parliaments
  13. 25. a member of a loosely organized fighting force that makes surprise attacks on enemy troops occupying his or her country
  14. 27. a person who leaves their native country for political reasons, like the nobles and others who fled France during the peasant uprisings of the French Revolution
  15. 28. in Spanish colonial society, a colonist who was born in Latin America to Spanish parents
  16. 29. the political and social system that existed in France before the French Revolution
  17. 31. the use of troops or ships to prevent commercial traffic from entering or leaving a city or region
  18. 34. a government-run public school in France