MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Conservatives
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Girondins
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Radicals
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Moderates
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Girondins desired war in the hope that it would enable them to abolish monarchy altogether.
Detailed explanation-2: -National Convention (1792-1795) The convention’s first act was to establish the French First Republic and officially strip the king of all political powers.
Detailed explanation-3: -In Revolutionary France, the Legislative Assembly votes to abolish the monarchy and establish the First Republic. The measure came one year after King Louis XVI reluctantly approved a new constitution that stripped him of much of his power.
Detailed explanation-4: -In April 1792, the newly elected Legislative Assembly declared war on Austria and Prussia, where it believed that French émigrés were building counterrevolutionary alliances; it also hoped to spread its revolutionary ideals across Europe through warfare.