Popular protest
What Popular protest means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA, Pearson Edexcel.
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Conscription demands triggered the rising in the Vendée, a massive royalist and Catholic rebellion, and a popular uprising led to the fall of the Girondins.
Localized food riots and resistance to conscription, rather than the massive journées of earlier years.
Topics that use Popular protest
- 2H France in Revolution, 1774–1815 (A-level only) – The emergence and spread of the Terror, September 1792–1795 (AQA A-Level)
- From the Directory to Brumaire, 1795–99 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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