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Abstract: This thesis investigates the evolution of popular American responses
to the French Revolution from 1789 to 1793, connecting the emergence of divisions amongst
the public to the emergence of the First Party System. Three Philadelphia newspapers--John
Fenno's Gazette of the United States, Philip Freneau's National Gazette, and Benjamin
Franklin Bache's General Advertiser--are used to ... read moreunderstand how the American vision of the
French Revolution changed over the course of the era. While Americans unanimously supported
the Revolution prior to the year 1792, increased violence in France led to growing
uncertainty in some sectors of the American public. Thus, arrival of news of Louis XVI's
death in the spring of 1793 saw the formation of a cohesive anti-French movement.
Federalist editors urged their readers to turn away from the French Revolution, while
Republicans continued to embrace events in France as an extension of their own nation's
values.
Thesis (M.A.)--Tufts University, 2013.
Submitted to the Dept. of History.
Advisor: Elizabeth Foster.
Committee: David Ekbladh, and Dennis Rasmussen.
Keywords: American history, and European history.read less
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