French Revolution

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Across
  1. 2. Bonaparte military leader who seized power in France
  2. 5. weak king who came to French throne in 1774
  3. 6. Robespierre revolutionary leader who tried to wipe out every trace of France’s past monarchy and nobility
  4. 8. government-run public school
  5. 10. of Terror period of Robespierre’s rule
  6. 12. Assembly assembly that replaced the National Assembly in 1791
  7. 15. sudden takeover of a government
  8. 16. machine for beheading people
  9. 17. promise made by Third Estate representatives to draw up a new constitution
  10. 19. condition in which no one country becomes a threat to another
  11. 24. unpopular queen; wife of Louis XVI
  12. 26. British defeat of Napoleon’s forces at sea
  13. 29. member of the Jacobin Club, a radical political organization
  14. 30. forced closing of ports
  15. 32. bringing back to power the kings that Napoleon had driven out
  16. 33. wave of panic
Down
  1. 1. Napoleon’s policy of preventing trade and communication between Great Britain and other European nations guerrilla Spanish peasant fighter
  2. 3. French congress established by representatives of the Third Estate
  3. 4. radical group of Parisian wage-earners
  4. 7. key leader at the Congress of Vienna
  5. 9. noble or other person who left France during the peasant uprisings and who hoped to come back to restore the old system
  6. 11. war that Napoleon fought in Spain scorchedearthpolicy policy of burning fields and slaughtering livestock so that enemy troops would find nothing to eat
  7. 13. battle in Belgium that was Napoleon’s final defeat
  8. 14. series of alliances to help prevent revolution
  9. 18. Napoleon’s last bid for power, which ended at Waterloo
  10. 20. meetings in Vienna for the purpose of restoring order to Europe
  11. 21. system of feudalism
  12. 22. vote by the people
  13. 23. assembly of representatives from all three estates
  14. 25. complete set of laws set up by Napoleon that eliminated many injustices
  15. 27. league formed by Russia, Austria, and Prussia
  16. 28. agreement
  17. 31. social class of people