MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
|
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
|
|
|
Suppressed with brutal force
|
|
|
Able to overthrow the Committee of Public Safety
|
|
|
Successfully resisted Revolution
|
|
|
None of the above
|
Detailed explanation-1: -Following the king’s execution, war with various European powers and intense divisions within the National Convention brought the French Revolution to its most violent and turbulent phase.
Detailed explanation-2: -Examples will include the storming of the Bastille, bread riots, the October Days, the Massacre at the Champ de Mars, the total war of the Vendée, the Terror and the guillotine, the Haitian revolution, and the coup of Napoleon.
Detailed explanation-3: -Were internal divisions the main reason why the counter-revolutionaries failed between 1789 and 1795?-no agreement on how to proceed after death of the King. Account for the failure of the counter-revolutionaries in France between 1789 and 1795.-localism; inability to obtain a coherent national movement.
Detailed explanation-4: -Calles began carrying out anti-Catholic policies which caused peaceful resistance from Catholics in 1926. The counter-revolution began as a movement of peaceful resistance against the anti-clerical laws. In the Summer of 1926, fighting broke out.