French Revolution Vocabulary

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  1. 4. Legislative body made up of representatives of the three estates in pre-Revolutionary France
  2. 5. Time period during the French Revolution from September 1793 to July 1794 when people in France were arrested for not supporting the revolution and many were executed
  3. 7. Principle by which monarchies that had been unseated by the French Revolution or Napoleon were restored
  4. 13. Members of the working class who made the French Revolution more radical; called such because men wore long trousers instead of the fancy knee breeches that the upper class wore
  5. 16. Situation in which the government spends more money than it takes in
  6. 18. Social classes
  7. 21. Fight carried on through hit-and-run raids
  8. 22. Loose peacekeeping organization whose goal was to preserve the agreements set up by the Congress of Vienna
Down
  1. 1. A series of wars from 1804 to 1805 that pitted Napoleon’s French empire against the major powers of Europe
  2. 2. Old order of government in pre-Revolutionary France
  3. 3. Body of French civil laws introduced in 1804; served as a model for many nations’ civil codes
  4. 6. Blockade designed by Napoleon to hurt Britain economically by closing European ports to British goods; ultimately unsuccessful
  5. 8. Assembly of European leaders that met after the Napoleonic era to piece Europe back together; met from September 1814 to June 1815
  6. 9. Give up or step down from power
  7. 10. A ballot in which voters have a direct say on an issue
  8. 11. A member of a radical political club during the French Revolution
  9. 12. The belief that all people in a nation are a distinct group, regardless of ethnicity or race
  10. 14. Middle class
  11. 15. A person who flees his or her country for political reasons
  12. 17. Right to vote
  13. 19. Add a territory to an existing state or country
  14. 20. Device used during the Reign of Terror to execute thousands by beheading