French Revolution

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  1. 1. High clergy (1%)
  2. 3. a legal right to vote
  3. 5. a member of the European royal family that ruled France
  4. 8. a person who takes a position in the political cente
  5. 9. the social class between the lower and upper classes
  6. 12. The French king who put his luxury and hobbies before the people
  7. 13. autocracy governed by a ruler who usually inherits authority
  8. 14. a member of the moderate republican party that was in power during the French Revolution; the Girondists were overthrown by their more radical rivals the Jacobins
  9. 15. law determining the fundamental principles of a government
  10. 18. a native or naturalized member of a state
  11. 19. assembly of the estates of all France; last meeting in 1789
  12. 20. a privileged class holding hereditary titles
  13. 22. This took place in the beginning of the French Revolution where peasants started destroying noble manors
  14. 23. Nobility (2%)
  15. 24. extremely conservative or resistant to change
  16. 26. a movement in Europe from about 1650 until 1800 that advocated the use of reason and individualism instead of tradition and established doctrine
  17. 29. a form of government in which the ruler is unconstrained
  18. 30. a flag having three colored stripes
  19. 31. The French queen who said "Let them eat cake"
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  1. 1. When the peasants were fed up with being treated poorly so they revolted
  2. 2. a palace built in the 17th century for Louis XIV southwest of Paris near the city of Versailles
  3. 4. a member of the radical movement that instituted the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution
  4. 6. French general who became emperor of the French (1769-1821)
  5. 7. delegates swore to meet continually until the constitution was drafted
  6. 10. one of a class of agricultural laborers
  7. 11. a sudden and decisive change of government by force
  8. 16. a fortress built in Paris in the 14th century and used as a prison in the 17th and 18th centuries; it was destroyed July 14, 1789 at the start of the French Revolution
  9. 17. close-fitting conical cap worn as a symbol of liberty during the French Revolution and in the U.S. before 1800
  10. 21. the doctrine that your country's interests are superior
  11. 25. of terror any period of brutal suppression thought to resemble the Reign of Terror in France
  12. 27. Middle class and peasants (97%)
  13. 28. instrument of execution used for beheading people