MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
Question
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The Jacobins
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The Girondins
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The Mountains
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The political faction known as the mountain convinced the national convention to pass a decree condemning Louis XVI to death. During the Reign of Terror, revolutionary courts were established to settle property disputes between the church and state.
Detailed explanation-2: -Royalists and priests led rebellions against the government. The sans-culottes demanded relief from food shortages and inflation.
Detailed explanation-3: -Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. A Jacobin (French pronunciation: [ʒakɔbɛ̃]; English: /ˈdʒækəbɪn/) was a member of the Jacobin Club, a revolutionary political movement that was the most famous political club during the French Revolution (1789–1799).
Detailed explanation-4: -Maximilien Robespierre, in full Maximilien-François-Marie-Isidore de Robespierre, (born May 6, 1758, Arras, France-died July 28, 1794, Paris), radical Jacobin leader and one of the principal figures in the French Revolution.