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- 3. Radical republicans during the French Revolution. They were led by Maximilien Robespierre from 1793 to 1794.
- 6. An assembly that represented the entire French population through three groups, known as estates; King Louis XVI called this in May 1789 to discuss the financial crises.
- 7. Radical Phase that sent many to the guillotine. Led by Robespierre.
- 9. Group formed by the Third Estate to write a new constitution.
- 10. National razor-used heavily in the Reign of Terror.
- 11. A sudden overthrow of the government by a small group.
- 15. July 14, 1789; members of the 3rd Estate demand guns and ammunition; troops open fire; the Bastille, a fortress in Paris used as a prison is stormed; this begins the French Revolution.
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- 1. A written plan of government.
- 2. The right and the power of a person or a nation to govern themselves.
- 4. The wealthiest members of the Third Estate- lawyers, doctors, etc.
- 5. A country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.
- 8. The July 20,1789 pledge by the third estate (the National Assembly) to create a new constitution.
- 12. A group of representatives that makes laws for a nation.
- 13. A wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille in 1789.
- 14. Social classes in France before the French Revolution; the 1st estate (clergy or church leaders) represented about 0.5% of the population, the 2nd estate (nobility) represented about 2%, and the 3rd estate represented everyone else.
- 16. People who take extreme political positions.