French Revolution Crossword

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  1. 3. Period of panic and violence in 1789. Peasants thought the nobility wanted to attack them so they attacked houses and rebelled agains feudal dues.
  2. 6. Machine used for beheading and executing people with a big blade.
  3. 7. Pledge taken in 1789 by the people of Third Estate in France. They were locked out of a meeting with the king so they gathered in a tennis court and promised to not separate until they had created new constitution for France.
  4. 8. Prison that got stormed by revolutionaries, initializing the start of Revolution.
  5. 10. Radical political group that wanted big changes in France including republic and equal rights for everyone.
  6. 12. Lists of complains before Revolution. Each estate created a lists of things they wanted to change to tell the king.
  7. 15. They were less radical, wanted changes but were against the extreme measures of the Jacobins. This group wanted a constitutional monarchy and to reduce the kings powers but not abolishing it completely.
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  1. 1. Marked the end of the Reign of Terror, people that supported Robespierre after his death was executed.
  2. 2. Group formed by representatives of the Third Estate to challenge the government and change the laws,
  3. 4. They were nobles and other people that fled France to escape the Revolution.
  4. 5. Meeting of the First, Second and Third Estate to solve money problems. The Third Estate felt underrepresented so they broke away, eventually starting the French Revolution.
  5. 9. System before Revolution that divided society into the three estates, but the Third state had few rights so this system was overthrown during the Revolution.
  6. 11. Middle class of the French Revolution composed of people like merchants, bakers and professional people that had money but not political power.
  7. 13. Period from 1793-1794, in which there was a lot of violence and fear and government killed thousands of people by guillotine.
  8. 14. King of France from 1774 to 1792. He provoked the French Revolution because he was a bad ruler and got arrested for treason and guillotined.