EMERGENCE OF USA
HOW DID THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION INFLUENCE THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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Detailed explanation-1: -During the French Revolution, modérantisme (French: [mɔdeʁɑ̃tism]) or the faction des modérés (faction of the moderates) was the name the Montagnards gave to their relatively more moderate opponents, first the Girondins and then the Dantonists.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Jacobins saw themselves as constitutionalists, dedicated to the Rights of Man and in particular, to the declaration’s principle of “preservation of the natural rights of liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression” (Article II of the Declaration).
Detailed explanation-3: -They were the principal conservative political party in France at the time and opposed the radical course of the revolution, leading to the Reign of Terror. Generally, historians divide the Convention into the left-wing Jacobin Montagnards, the centrist The Plain and the right-wing Girondins.
Detailed explanation-4: -In early 1793 the two major factions in French politics were the Girondins and the Montagnards. The Girondins, who were the more moderate of the two factions, drew their strength from the provincial cities and the upper classes.