French Revolution

2. The middle-class members of the Third Estate who were educated and taxed heavily but had little political power.
7. A plant disease that destroyed wheat crops and caused food shortages in France.
8. A Jacobin leader who controlled the government during the Reign of Terror before being executed.
9. A Paris prison that revolutionaries stormed, symbolizing the start of the French Revolution.
10. The National Assembly formed by the Third Estate to represent the people and begin making new laws.
11. Money owed by the French government from wars and royal spending that helped cause the financial crisis.
13. A movement that promoted reason, natural rights, and the idea that government should protect people's freedoms.
15. A system where a king or queen rules; during the Revolution France moved toward a limited monarchy.

1. A radical political group that pushed for extreme changes during the Revolution.
3. The social and political system in France before the Revolution where people were divided into three estates and the king and nobles held most power.
4. Refers to the Reign of Terror, when thousands were executed as “enemies of the revolution.”
5. A major and rapid change where people overthrow an old government or system.
6. A poor farmer or laborer who paid many taxes and made up most of the Third Estate.
12. King of France executed by his own people
14. A social class in France—clergy, nobles, or everyone else.