Across
- 4. the belief that people should be loyal mainly to their nation—that is, to the people with whom they share a culture and history—rather than to a king or empire.
- 5. the brief period during 1815 when Napoleon made his last bid for power, deposing the French king and again becoming emperor of France
- 9. a formal agreement - especially one between the pope and a government, dealing with the control of Church affairs
- 11. a political situation in which no one nation is powerful enough to pose a threat to others
- 13. a European who favored drastic change to extend democracy to all people
- 14. a sudden seizure of political power in a nation
- 15. the process of forcing Russian culture on all ethnic groups in the Russian Empire
- 16. a machine for beheading people, used as a means of execution during the French Revolution
- 19. a European wealthy landowner or noble who wanted to preserve the traditional monarchies of Europe
- 21. Napoleon's policy of preventing trade between Great Britain and continental Europe, intended to destroy Great Britain's economy
- 22. an early 19th-century movement in art and thought, which focused on emotion and nature rather than reason and society
- 23. a French congress with the power to create laws and approve declarations of war, established by the constitution of 1791.
- 24. the hereditary right of a monarch to rule
- 26. an assembly of representatives from all three of the estates in France
- 30. "the politics of reality"- the practice of tough power politics without room for idealism
- 32. a wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille in 1789
- 33. a movement in 19th-century painting, in which artists reacted against realism by seeking to convey their impressions of subjects or moments in time
- 35. a French congress established by representatives of the Third Estate to enact laws and reforms in the name of the French people
Down
- 1. the period when Maximilien Robespierre ruled France nearly as a dictator and thousands of political figures and ordinary citizens were executed
- 2. a pledge made by the members of France's National Assembly in which they vowed to continue meeting until they had drawn up a new constitution
- 3. member of a radical political organization during the French Revolution
- 6. a 19th-century artistic movement in which writers and painters sought to show life as it is rather than life as it should be
- 7. a direct vote in which a country's people have the opportunity to approve or reject a proposal
- 8. a belief that government is harmful or not needed
- 10. in Spanish colonial society, colonists who were born in Spain
- 12. a person of mixed European and African ancestry
- 17. a German emperor
- 18. in the French Revolution, a radical group made of Parisian wage-earners and small shopkeepers who wanted a greater voice in government, lower prices, and an end to food shortages
- 20. one of the three social classes in France before the French Revolution
- 23. a European middle-class business leader or merchant who wanted to give more political power to elected parliaments
- 25. a member of a loosely organized fighting force that makes surprise attacks on enemy troops occupying his or her country
- 27. 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
- 28. in Spanish colonial society, a colonist who was born in Latin America to Spanish parents
- 29. the political and social system that existed in France before the French Revolution
- 31. the use of troops or ships to prevent commercial traffic from entering or leaving a city or region
- 34. a government-run public school in France