French Revolution

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  1. 1. In the French Revolution, finding themselves locked out of their usual meeting hall at Versailles on June 20 and thinking that the king was forcing them to disband, they moved to a nearby indoor tennis court. There they took an oath never to separate until a written constitution had been established for France.
  2. 3. It was a prison in France and a place where famous people were arrested for crimes that they had committed.
  3. 4. It was a political and social system of France prior to the French Revolution. Under the regime, everyone was a subject of the king of France as well as a member of an estate and province.
  4. 5. Is an assembly composed of the representatives of a nation and usually constituting a legislative body or a constituent assembly.
  5. 6. Is a book of directions for the conduct of Christian worship, especially in Presbyterian and Roman Catholic Churches.
  6. 8. It was a period of state-sanctioned violence and mass executions during the French Revolution.
  7. 10. One of several organizations that grew out of the French Revolution and it was distinguished for its left-wing, revolutionary politics.
  8. 13. Is the name given in some countries to either a legislature, or to one of its houses.
  9. 15. The lists of grievances drawn up by each of the three States of France, between January and April 1789, the year in which the French Revolution began.
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  1. 2. Is a convention of a major political party, especially one that nominates a candidate for the presidency.
  2. 7. This was people from middle class that owned most part of the wealth usually in a capitalist system.
  3. 9. In the French Revolution is a period of panic and riot by peasants and others amid rumours of an “aristocratic conspiracy” by the king and the privileged to overthrow the Third Estate.
  4. 11. It was a device used to execute people. This device separates your head from your body and it was specially used in France.
  5. 12. It was a assembly representing the French estates of the realm: the clergy (First Estate), the nobility (Second Estate), and the commoners (Third Estate).
  6. 14. He was the last king of France, in the Bourbon line preceding the French Revolution. He married Marie-Antoinette, and in 1774 he succeeded to the throne on the death of his grandfather, Louis XV.