Unit 6

2. a sudden, violent, and unlawful seizure of power from a government;
3. Haitian patriot and leader of the Haitian Revolution slave rebellion.
4. a key moment that set off the French Revolution.
6. a member of a democratic club established in Paris in 1789. The Jacobins were the most radical and ruthless of the political groups formed in the wake of the French Revolution, and in association with Robespierre they instituted the Terror of 1793–4.
7. a Venezuelan soldier and statesman
9. a fortress in Paris, built in the 14th century
11. a person of mixed white and Black ancestry, especially a person with one white and one Black parent.
12. any of the colonial residents of Latin America from the 16th through the early 19th centuries who had been born in Spain.
14. a period of remorseless repression or bloodshed, in particular the period of the Terror during the French Revolution.
15. the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes.
16. a person of mixed European and Black descent, especially in the Caribbean.

1. A French general, political leader, and emperor of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
5. identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.
8. the elected legislature in France during the first part of the French Revolution, 1789–91.
10. a decisive or final defeat or setback
13. a machine with a heavy blade sliding vertically in grooves, used for beheading people.