The French Revolution
Name: ______________________ Date: ____________
Write the letter of the matching definition next to each term.
1. BASTILLE
A. Charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government (plural)
2. PEASANTS
B. An autocracy governed by a ___ who usually inherits the authority
3. CONSTITUTION
C. A country person (plural)
4. CLERGY
D. Queen of France who was unpopular
5. REVOLUTION
E. The savage and excessive killing of many people
6. FRENCH
F. A form of government whose head of state is not a monarch
7. TAXES
G. Male ruler of a kingdom
8. EXECUTION
H. Instrument of execution that consists of a weighted blade between two vertical poles
9. GUILLOTINE
I. A drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving
10. ROYALIST
J. Law determining the fundamental political principles of a government
11. HIERARCHY
K. United States prizefighter who was world heavyweight champion for 12 years
12. MASSACRE
L. A mountainous republic in central Europe
13. KING
M. Putting a condemned person to death
14. LOUIS
N. A titled peer of the realm (plural)
15. ARISTOCRAT
O. In Christianity, ___ collectively
16. MARIE-ANTOINETTE
P. A member of the ___
17. MONARCHY
Q. A fortress built in Paris in the 14th century and used as a prison in the 17th and 18th centuries
18. AUSTRIA
R. A series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system
19. NOBLES
S. United States sculptor who created the seated marble figure of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln
20. REPUBLIC
T. A ___ supporter of Charles I during the English Civil War