USA HISTORY

MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Members of the Jacobin Club were known as
A
Conservatives
B
Revolutionaries
C
Terrorists
D
Sans-culottes
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Jacobian club was the most famous political club during the French Revolution. The members of this club were known as San Culottes because they wore long striped pants worn by dock workers as the symbol of equality.

Detailed explanation-2: -The members of the Jacobin club did not wear the knee-breeches worn by the upper class. This was to signify the end of their rule. They were also known as sans-culottes because they are not ready to wear knee-breeches.

Detailed explanation-3: -sansculotte, French sans-culotte ("without knee breeches"), in the French Revolution, a label for the more militant supporters of that movement, especially in the years 1792 to 1795.

Detailed explanation-4: -Sans-culottes, literally means ‘those without knee breeches. They were Jacobins who wore a particular kind of dress to proclaim the end of power wielded by wearers of knee breeches.

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