Atlantic Revolutions

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Across
  1. 3. The most important military leader in the struggle for independence in South America.
  2. 4. A tax paid to the church
  3. 5. the freeing of enslaved people
  4. 9. Part of the wealthy class that owned most of the land. Before the revolution, many peasants and common people lived and worked on land owned by these landlords, and they often had to pay high rents and taxes.
  5. 11. When people come together to fight against a leader or a government
  6. 14. people who worked the land or served the nobles
  7. 15. One country taking over another area to be used for their benefit
  8. 17. The clergy made up a very small percentage but owned 10% of the land; the nobles made up another small percentage but also owned most of the land; and the rest of the people made up 97% of France and owned very little land
  9. 18. A system where some groups of people have more power.
Down
  1. 1. middle class
  2. 2. A country on a Caribbean island that had a historic revolution.
  3. 6. Movement to end slavery
  4. 7. Church officials
  5. 8. A high-ranking social class
  6. 10. XVI King of France during the French Revolution
  7. 12. an extreme shortage of food
  8. 13. French general who became emperor of the French (1769-1821)
  9. 16. Wife of Louis XVI