MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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Supported constitutional monarchy and separation of power
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Adopted Locke’s natural rights to form a new government
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Used the guillotine to establish an unlimited government
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Restored an absolute monarchy with King Robespierre
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Detailed explanation-1: -The leader of the Montagnard Jacobins was Maximillien Robespierre. He helped to overthrow the Girondins after the Montagnards became dissatisfied with the changes the Girondins made to the French government, which became a constitutional monarchy in 1791 after King Louis XVI signed the French Constitution of 1791.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Jacobins were afraid that the revolution was going to fail. Behind the leadership of Robespierre, the Jacobins instituted a state of “Terror.” Under this new rule of law, they would arrest, and often execute, anyone suspected of treason. Thousands of people were executed and hundreds of thousands were arrested.
Detailed explanation-3: -In April 1793, Robespierre urged the Jacobins to raise a sans-culotte army to enforce revolutionary laws and sweep away any counter-revolutionary conspirator, leading to the armed Insurrection of 31 May – 2 June 1793.
Detailed explanation-4: -Maximilien Robespierre, the architect of the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror, is overthrown and arrested by the National Convention. As the leading member of the Committee of Public Safety from 1793, Robespierre encouraged the execution, mostly by guillotine, of more than 17, 000 enemies of the Revolution.