MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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Quick decapitation is a humane form of capital (death penalty) punishment
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Decapitation is a consistent and equal form of punishment
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Both are reasons for its use during the Reign of Terror
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Jacobins felt that it was their duty to preserve the revolution, even if it meant violence and terror. The Committee of Public Safety introduced several new laws. They wanted to make “Terror” an official government policy.
Detailed explanation-2: -Guillotin’s initial goal of creating a humane form of execution, the guillotine was used to kill thousands of people during the Reign of Terror. Among them were members of the bourgeoisie, aristocrats, peasants, foreigners, and sympathizers of the revolution.
Detailed explanation-3: -The period of the French Revolution from 1792-1793 is called the Reign of Terror. Robespierre, the leader of the Jacobin club, used a revolutionary tribunal to arrest people who seemed to be against the republic nation. They were guillotined, when found guilty.
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.