USA HISTORY

MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The period when Robespierre ruled France as a dictator and tens of thousands of political figures and citizens were executed.
A
The Great Fear
B
Storming of the Basitlle
C
Reign of Terror
D
Napoleonic Code
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Reign of Terror (French: la Terreur) was a period of the French Revolution when, following the creation of the First Republic, a series of massacres and numerous public executions took place in response to revolutionary fervour, anticlerical sentiment, and accusations of treason by the Committee of Public Safety .

Detailed explanation-2: -Radical leader of the Committee of Public Safety, he governed France as a dictator and his rle became known as the Reign of Terror. The period from mid-1793 to mid-1794, when Maximilien Robespierre ruled France nearly as a dictator and thousands of political figures and ordinary citizens were executed.

Detailed explanation-3: -The period of the French Revolution from 1792-1793 is called the Reign of Terror.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Reign of Terror, also called the Terror, was a period of state-sanctioned violence and mass executions during the French Revolution. Between Sept. 5, 1793, and July 27, 1794, France’s revolutionary government ordered the arrest and execution of thousands of people.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.

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