What were the principal points dividing the Mountain and the Girondins in the radical phase of the Revolution?
What will be an ideal response?
Specifically, these two factions within the National Convention were at odds over whether to execute Louis XVI. The Girondins were opposed to it, not because they supported the king but because they were concerned that the political forces in Europe might band together and launch an attack on France. They also feared that his execution might re-invigorate the country's own anti-Revolutionary factions, and therefore it posed too great a threat to execute him. The Mountain, most of whom were part of the larger faction of Jacobins, argued that the king must be executed on the basis of having been found guilty of the charges leveled at him, for which he was tried and convicted. Some Enlightenment-influenced thinkers like Thomas Paine argued instead that this punishment was too harsh and was an abuse of power, and that Louis should be exiled, perhaps to America. In the end, Louis was executed by the guillotine.
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
The Spanish explorers de solo and Coronado.
A. developed friendly relationships with the natives they encountered B. established many permanent settlements in the Southeast and Southwest C. gained valuable knowledge about North America’s interior regions D. found large deposits of gold to send back to Spain
To what extent were the struggles by women, Mexican Americans, and Indians continuations of the African American civil rights struggles of several years earlier?
What will be an ideal response?
One of the results of the revolutions of 1848 was:
a. The election of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte as president of France. b. The establishment of an independent Ireland. c. The establishment a unified Germany, with its capital in Frankfurt. d. A communist takeover of Bavaria.