MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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by using mediation to settle differences
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by becoming more radical
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by welcoming their opponents into the decision-making process
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by ensuring that all citizens were free to speak
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Detailed explanation-1: -A number of French counterrevolutionaries-nobles, ecclesiastics, and some bourgeois-abandoned the struggle in their own country and emigrated. As “émigrés, ” many formed armed groups close to the northeastern frontier of France and sought help from the rulers of Europe.
Detailed explanation-2: -The French Revolution became far more radical than the American Revolution. In addition to a period of extreme public violence, which became known as the Reign of Terror, the French Revolution also attempted to enhance the rights and power of poor people and women.
Detailed explanation-3: -Fraternity was the most abstract, idealistic and unachievable of all revolutionary ideals. It was more prevalent in the early phase of the revolution when the new government was churning out positive reforms like the August Decrees and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen.