Unit #6 Vocabulary Assignment

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Across
  1. 1. The most radical political faction of the French Revolution who ruled France during the Reign of Terror.
  2. 3. The site of Napoleon's defeat by British and Prussian armies in 1815
  3. 7. A vow by members of the 3rd estate
  4. 10. A machine for beheading people, used as a means of execution during the French Revolution.
Down
  1. 2. The middle class, including merchants, industrialists, and professional people
  2. 4. French Directory in 1799 and became emperor of the French in 1804.
  3. 5. A French congress established by representatives of the Third Estate on June 17, 1789
  4. 6. Medieval fortress that was converted to a prison stormed by peasants for ammunition during the early stages of the French Revolution.
  5. 8. A sudden overthrow of the government by a small group
  6. 9. The period in France where Robespierre ruled and used revolutionary terror to solidify the home front.