What is the best explanation offered for the extremes encountered in the Reign of Terror?
What will be an ideal response?
The Reign of Terror was influenced by two factors. First was the pressure of civil and foreign war, requiring the Committee of Public Safety to respond in an aggressive manner, not only to protect itself but to perpetuate the Revolution in France. But revolutionary politics were also extremely important. Since the beginning, the concept of the Revolution relied on a sense of unity among the people, without opposition from within the nation. The nation had to focus on maintaining and extending the Revolution, the radicals felt, and could not abide any internal dissent. This led to the Committee of Public Safety holding trials and executions of their own revolutionary partners, regardless of political faction, because they saw these counterrevolutionaries as jeopardizing the gains of the revolution for personal benefit. This could not be permitted and therefore the excesses, however violent, must purge the counterproductive elements who spoke up in opposition.
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Operation ________ was the U.S. and allied military campaign against Iraq in 1991
A) Against Terror B) Desert Storm C) Afghanistan D) Defeat Saddam E) Liberate Kuwait
The chapter introduction tells the story of the Sioux migration to the Great Plains to make the point that
A. the American ideology of Manifest Destiny meant manifest destruction for tribal cultures. B. the United States not only had to resort to war and diplomacy to expand its borders, it also had to cope within its borders with native peoples who attacked the emigrants on the Overland Trail. C. Mexican advancement northward, as well as Anglo-American advancement westward, put pressure on the Plains tribes. D. frontiers were multidimensional and mobile, involved a variety of peoples and cultures, and ultimately proved as disruptive to the settled East as to the contested West.
The restrictions imposed by the Schenck decision most directly contradicted which of the following earlier developments in the United States?
(A) arguments for self-government asserted in the Declaration of Independence (B) protection of liberties through the adoption of the bill of rights in 1791 (C) assertion of federal power over sates' rights int he 1819 mcculloch v. marlyand decision (D) expansion of voting rights during President Andrew Jackson's administration
Discuss the Haymarket riot, the Homestead strike, and the Pullman strike, and examine the reaction of the government and the public to these instances of labor unrest.
What will be an ideal response?