History of the United States I / Unit 8 USH1 1069 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The French Revolution Splits American Politics
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The idea
France became a republic in seventeen ninety-two and executed the king in January seventeen ninety-three, followed by extreme violence against perceived enemies.
In practice
Democratic-Republicans embracing the French republican struggle while Federalists saw anarchy.
Where people slip
Revolutionaries dismantled Catholicism, renamed the months of the year, and relentlessly employed the guillotine.
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