Age of Revolutions Crossword

5. organized campaigns to refuse to buy a certain good or service.
7. an assembly of delegates from the Americana colonies that issued the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
8. soldier who fights merely for pay often for a foreign country.
9. company that controls all or nearly all business in a particular industry.
10. shutting a port or roadway to prevent people or supplies from coming into or leaving an area.
12. lowest estate in French society consisting of everyday French citizens.
13. the sudden overthrow of a government, usually by a small group of people in a position of authority.
16. government where the people are the primary source of power.
17. law-making body that in France that passed the Declaration of the Rights of Man.
20. document created during the French Revolution giving individual rights and protections under the law.
21. a prison that held political prisoners; French citizens attacked it on July 14, 1789 to show anger against the government.

1. a series of British laws passed in 1774 designed to punish the American colonists by closing a port in Boston and banning town meetings.
2. the crime of betraying one's country.
3. document created that declared the thirteen American colonies independent from Britain.
4. formal written request to someone in authority that is signed by a group of people.
6. pledge signed by members of the third estate in 1789 that they would continue meeting at the Tennis Courts until a new constitution was created in France.
11. noble families in French society.
14. the period of the French Revolution during which many people were executed for opposing the revolution.
15. priests and religious leaders in French society.
18. organized body of armed volunteers.
19. colonial militia volunteer who was prepared to fight at a minute's notice.