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What led the people of France to agree to an imperial dictatorship instead of a true democratic republic like the one selected in the American colonies?
The French people were tired of the violence of the Revolution and accepted rule by a dictator in order to gain peace and stability.
The people of France did not believe that a democratic republic would meet their needs for liberty and equality.
Enlightenment thinkers in France simply underestimated how brutal an imperial dictator would be, and encouraged their followers to accept him.
Napoleon Bonaparte had been such a great military leader that the people of France believed he would make a good king as well.
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The first option.
Widespread exhaustion with years of revolutionary violence, economic crisis, foreign war and political instability made many Frenchmen willing to trade some democratic ideals for order and security. Napoleon’s strong leadership and promises of peace, stability, and national glory — confirmed by plebiscites — gave popular legitimacy to an imperial dictatorship.
(Other choices are partial or secondary: Napoleon’s military fame helped, but the decisive factor was the public desire for stability after the Revolution.)
Widespread exhaustion with years of revolutionary violence, economic crisis, foreign war and political instability made many Frenchmen willing to trade some democratic ideals for order and security. Napoleon’s strong leadership and promises of peace, stability, and national glory — confirmed by plebiscites — gave popular legitimacy to an imperial dictatorship.
(Other choices are partial or secondary: Napoleon’s military fame helped, but the decisive factor was the public desire for stability after the Revolution.)
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