The French Revolution

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. A series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system (9)
  2. 8. Instrument of execution that consists of a weighted blade between two vertical poles (10)
  3. 10. A ___ supporter of Charles I during the English Civil War (8)
  4. 11. Law determining the fundamental political principles of a government (12)
  5. 12. Charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government (plural) (5)
  6. 13. A form of government whose head of state is not a monarch (8)
  7. 15. Putting a condemned person to death (9)
  8. 16. United States sculptor who created the seated marble figure of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln (6)

Down

  1. 1. The savage and excessive killing of many people (8)
  2. 2. Male ruler of a kingdom (4)
  3. 3. A drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving (10)
  4. 5. A member of the ___ (10)
  5. 6. A titled peer of the realm (plural) (6)
  6. 7. A fortress built in Paris in the 14th century and used as a prison in the 17th and 18th centuries (8)
  7. 9. An autocracy governed by a ___ who usually inherits the authority (8)
  8. 14. United States prizefighter who was world heavyweight champion for 12 years (5)