FRENCH REVOLUTION

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Across
  1. 2. at the time of the Revolution.
  2. 3. – centrists; they wanted some changes in the government, but not as many as the radicals.
  3. 6. – a system of government in which the ruler has unlimited power.
  4. 7. of Terror - The period from 1793 to 1794 when Maximillen Robespierre ruled France nearly as dictator and thousands of political figures
  5. 9. of Public Safety - A committee established to identify “enemies of the republic”.
  6. 12. Convention - The body that replaced the Legislative Assembly following a successful election in 1792.
  7. 14. - A set of thirteen provincial judicial boards.
  8. 15. - The new executive branch established by the constitution written during the moderate Thermidorian Reaction of 1794–1795.
Down
  1. 1. – an extreme radical republic
  2. 4. – the middle class in a society.
  3. 5. Constitution of the Clergy – A document issued by the National Assembly in July 1790 that broke ties with the Catholic Church. It established a national church system in France. It turned many Catholics against the Revolution.
  4. 8. – a legislative body; the gathering of a political or social group.
  5. 10. – Right wing; upheld the idea limited monarchy. They wanted fewer changes government.
  6. 11. Regime. The political and social system that existed in France before the French Revolution of 1789.
  7. 13. Fear - A wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille in 1789.