MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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theywere frightened by the actions of the Parisians in the September Massacres
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themonarch was put back in power and so a legislature was not needed
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theAssembly was not effective at making laws
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allof these answers are true
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Detailed explanation-1: -Chaos persisted until the National Convention, elected by universal male suffrage and charged with writing a new constitution, met on September 20, 1792, and became the new de facto government of France. The Legislative Assembly ceased to exist.
Detailed explanation-2: -Answer and Explanation: The September Massacres affected the government by igniting conflicts between the political factions of the Montagnards, and the Girondins, who were vying for power in the newly-established republic. Both groups were members of the Jacobin Club, an extremist republican organization.
Detailed explanation-3: -The massacres were an expression of the collective mentality in Paris in the days after the overthrow of the monarchy (August 10, 1792). The people believed that political prisoners were planning to rise up in their jails to join a counterrevolutionary plot.
Detailed explanation-4: -The September Massacres were a series of killings of prisoners in Paris that occurred in 1792, from Sunday, 2 September until Thursday, 6 September, during the French Revolution.