USA HISTORY

MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
____ A person who fled revolutionary France to live in another country.
A
blockade
B
bourgeoisie
C
emigre
D
nationalism
E
sans-culottes
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -émigré, any of the Frenchmen, at first mostly aristocrats, who fled France in the years following the French Revolution of 1789. From their places of exile in other countries, many émigrés plotted against the Revolutionary government, seeking foreign help in their goal of restoring the old regime.

Detailed explanation-2: -Émigrés of the French Revolution left their homeland because they eschewed the political development in France or in reaction to the increasing pressure of political exclusion.

Detailed explanation-3: -During the French Revolution, more than 100, 000 individuals, predominantly supporters of the Old Regime, fled France. As a result, some areas experienced a significant change in the composition of the local elites whereas in others the pre-revolutionary social structure remained virtually intact.

Detailed explanation-4: -European emigration is the successive emigration waves from the European continent to other continents. The origins of the various European diasporas can be traced to the people who left the European nation states or stateless ethnic communities on the European continent. European emigration.

Detailed explanation-5: -The truly elite émigrés settled in Marylebone, Richmond, and Hampstead. The politics of these areas were extremely royalist.

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