French Revoulution

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  1. 3. Wanted to improve life for the people but was not a good leader, queen gave him poor advice, increased debt, king of France
  2. 6. civil right to vote
  3. 8. Louis XVI's queen, spent a lot of money on herself and parties, from Austria, hated in France
  4. 11. The political and social system that existed in France before the French Revolution
  5. 13. A league of European nations formed by the leaders of Russia, Austria, and Prussia after the Congress of Vienna
  6. 14. A formal agreement especially one between the pope and a government, dealing with the control of church affairs.
  7. 15. A wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille in 1789
  8. 16. A person who leaves their native country for political reasons, like the nobles and others who fled France during the peasant uprisings of the French Revolution
  9. 19. A direct vote in which a country's people have the opportunity to approve or reject a proposal
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  1. 1. A machine for beheading people, used as a means of execution during the French Revolution
  2. 2. Jacobin leader, set out to build a "republic of virtue" (wiping out every trace of France's past), created new calendar without a Sunday, thought religion was old fashioned, closed many churches, became leader of the Committee of Public Safety in 1793, governed France as a dictator
  3. 4. A pledge made by the members of France's National Assembly in 1789, in which they vowed to continue meeting until they had drawn up a new constitution
  4. 5. A 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
  5. 7. A member of a loosely organized fighting force that makes surprise attacks on enemy troops occupying his or her country.
  6. 9. A comprehensive and uniform system of laws established for France by Napoleon
  7. 10. Village in Belgium, attacked by Napoleon, British and Prussian forces drove French out
  8. 12. A sudden seizure of political power in a nation
  9. 17. The use of troops or ships to prevent commercial traffic from entering or leaving a city or region
  10. 18. One of the three social classes in France before the French Revolution.