USA HISTORY

MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Why did Jacobins like Maximilien de Robespierre argue that the French royal family needed to be executed?
A
To convince France’s enemies to stop attacking them
B
To avoid a return to absolute monarchy
C
To abolish the feudal system forever
D
To appease military leaders such as Napoleon
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Maximilien de Robespierre’s Reign of Terror persuaded them to believe that killing the king was necessary to legitimize the government.

Detailed explanation-2: -He was arrested and on the next day he was sent to the guillotine and killed, in the same manner, he punished people. Final answer Maximilian Robespierre was guillotined for his methodology of severe punishment to the people in France through the very same guillotined he was killed too.

Detailed explanation-3: -The leader of the Montagnard Jacobins was Maximillien Robespierre. He helped to overthrow the Girondins after the Montagnards became dissatisfied with the changes the Girondins made to the French government, which became a constitutional monarchy in 1791 after King Louis XVI signed the French Constitution of 1791.

Detailed explanation-4: -In April 1793, Robespierre urged the Jacobins to raise a sans-culotte army to enforce revolutionary laws and sweep away any counter-revolutionary conspirator, leading to the armed Insurrection of 31 May – 2 June 1793.

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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