Unit 4: Revolutions

3. forcible closing of ports.
4. Jacobin leader who slowly gained power.
6. Parisian workers and small shopkeepers who wanted the Revolution to bring even greater changes to France.
8. one of the three social classes in France before the French Revolution - The first Estate consisting of the clergy; the second estate, of the nobility; and the Third Estate, of the rest of the population.
10. Last king of France before the fall of monarchy.
11. Last Queen of France before the fall of monarchy.
12. an assembly of representatives from all three estates.
14. A sudden seizure of power.
15. people who leave their native country for political reasons, like the nobles and others who fled France during the peasant uprisings of the French revolution.
17. practice of burning crops and killing livestock during wartime so that the enemy cannot live off the land.

1. a machine for beheading people, used as a means of execution during the French Revolution.
2. a political situation in which no one nation is powerful enough to pose a threat to others
5. the political and social system that existed in France before the French Revolution
7. military leader of France who led successful campaigns in the French revolution.
9. most influential represenitivate of the five “great powers”
13. the hereditary right of a monarch to rule
16. member of a radical political organization during the French Revolution.