French Revolution Cross Word

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  1. 1. The king of France when the revolution begins
  2. 5. (1789) representatives of the Third Estate pledged to form a National Assembly and write a constitution limiting the powers of the king.
  3. 6. 97% of the population
  4. 10. gave all male French citizens equal rights before the law
  5. 12. 1793 Allows anyone who is merely suspected of challenging the republic or the revolution can be arrested without trial
  6. 17. policy of mass national conscription
  7. 18. wife of King Louie XVI, Queen of France
  8. 19. form of unpaid labor enacted by a feudal lord
  9. 20. France’s Middle Class, influenced by the Enlightenment
  10. 25. made up of nobles
  11. 26. women who led the Women's March on Versailles during the French Revolution
  12. 27. French nobles who fled from France and hoped to restore the king to power.
  13. 28. a lower-class Parisian republican in the French Revolution who advocated for radical change
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  1. 2. A machine for beheading people
  2. 3. French congress established by representatives of the Third Estate on June 17, 1789, to enact laws and reforms in the name of the French people
  3. 4. 12 members who were committed to rooting out France’s enemies through terror
  4. 7. member of a radical political club during the French Revolution
  5. 8. A King or Queen is the official head of state but power is limited by a constitution.
  6. 9. An assembly of representatives from all three of the estates, or social classes, in France.
  7. 11. headed the Committee of Public Safety and ruled as a dictator
  8. 13. 1792 abolished the monarchy and established a republic, adult male citizens gain the right to vote and hold office
  9. 14. monarch’s rule comes directly from God, and not the people
  10. 15. Queen Marie Antoinette was from the country
  11. 16. made up of the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church.
  12. 21. caused by peasant uprisings, manors were attacked, records destroyed, many nobles fled to other countries where they became counter-revolutionaries
  13. 22. A clergyman who was a leading spokesman for the third estate; suggested the National Assembly
  14. 23. French prison
  15. 24. form of government where the people hold the power, but elect representatives to exercise it