French Revolution Crossword

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  1. 1. any form of government in which the supreme powers of the state are exercised, or ceremoniously held, by a king, queen, emperor, or other regal potentate
  2. 5. an individual who rules arbitrarily and is not constitutionally responsible to the people or their elected representatives
  3. 6. one of the most important figures in modern European history
  4. 9. townspeople who had acquired a certain level of comfort through capitalist production or trade
  5. 11. the process by which the public votes for candidates for public office
  6. 14. when someone in an official capacity uses his or her position illegally to gain an advantage personally or for someone else
  7. 17. one of France's greatest writers and philosophers of the 18th century, as well as a leader of the Enlightenment
  8. 18. a major European historical turning point that transformed France from a monarchy to a republic
  9. 19. a form of government in which sovereign power resides in the electorate and is exercised by elected representatives who are responsible to the people
  10. 20. a governing body or class consisting of a hereditary nobility.
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  1. 2. a collection of laws and principles under which a government or other organization operates
  2. 3. the current state of affairs
  3. 4. the king of France during the early stages of the French Revolution
  4. 7. a European cultural and philosophical movement that grew out of new methods of inquiry and new theories of personal freedom
  5. 8. a person of the lower class who works as a landowner or agricultural laborer
  6. 10. the historical period in which modern methods of scientific inquiry were established
  7. 12. a medieval fortress in Paris, France that was used as a prison in the 18th century
  8. 13. a general term denoting various forms of compulsory military service.
  9. 15. a French royal house descended from Louis IX in the 13th century that became firmly established only in the 17th century, along with a tradition of absolute monarchy in France
  10. 16. government by the people—of one person, one vote—rather than the rule of a single individual (monarchy) or a small group (aristocracy)