17. Impact of Terror + CPS

Question 1

Who were the Enrages?

Answer 1

extreme revolutionary group led by Jacques Roux which had influence of sans-culottes

Question 2

What did the Enrages demand from the government?

Answer 2

wanted them to deal with the current issues

Question 3

What did Jacques Roux do when government refused his demands?

Answer 3

economic terror - demanded execution of hoarders and purge of ex-nobles

Question 4

What took place on 4th September 1793?

Answer 4

crowd outside Hotel de Ville demanding bread and higher wages

Question 5

What took place on 5th September 1793?

Answer 5

crowd marched on convention forcing it to accept radical measures

Question 6

What was the Armee Revolutionaries?

Answer 6

sans-culottes sent to provinces confronting revolutionary forces and ensure movement of food supplies

Question 7

What was the purpose of the Armee Revolutionaries? (3)

Answer 7

ensure food supplies of Paris
round up hoarders, refractory priests and royalist
mobilise nations resources

Question 8

When was the law of the general maximum introduced?

Answer 8

29th September 1793

Question 9

What 3 forms did political terror take?

Answer 9

terror controlled by CPS and CGS
federal revolt such as Vendee and Lyon
other parts controlled by committees and revolutionary armies

Question 10

When was the end of the federal revolts? and who suppressed it?

Answer 10

regular army

1793

Question 11

When was the law of suspects introduced and what did it do?

Answer 11

1793 - local administration could be taken away and replaced with sans-culottes militants

Question 12

What did dechristianisation do?

Answer 12

melted down church bells and priests had to renounce their priesthood and compelled to marry

Question 13

When was the new revolutionary calendar introduced?

Answer 13

5th October 1793

Question 14

What was 2 aims of the revolutionary calendar?

Answer 14

emphasise complete breakdown of the past

remove any traces of ancien regime

Question 15

What did the new calendar ignore?

Answer 15

Sundays and festivals of the church

Question 16

what decree did CPS declare in 1793?

Answer 16

the decree to suspend the convention of 1793

Question 17

What did the law of Frimarie give to the CPS snd CGS?

Answer 17

What did the law of Frimarie give to the CPS snd CGS?

Question 18

Where did left wing opposition come from towards the government?

Answer 18

Jacques Herbert

Question 19

What did Jacques Herbert do/want?

Answer 19

he called for an insurrection in 1794

Question 20

How did CPS take adv of Hebert being arrested?

Answer 20

They closed down the Cordeliers club and commune was purged

Question 21

Where did right wing opposition come from towards the government?

Answer 21

Danton

Question 22

Who were indulgents?

Answer 22

supporters of Danton and wanted to see relaxation of terror

Question 23

Where did Danton have a following?

Answer 23

convention

Question 24

Where was the Great terror held and when did it last until?

Answer 24

centred in Pairs and lasted until 27th July

Question 25

When was the revolutionary tribunal abolished?

Answer 25

1974

Question 26

Where did Robespierre begin to lose support? (3)

Answer 26

catholics, sans-culottes and CPS/CGS

Question 27

Why did Robespierre begin to lose support?

Answer 27

took time off from public and when he came back to speak, people were worried he would denounce them so plotted to overthrow him

Question 28

When was Robespierre and his followers executed?

Answer 28

28th July 1794

Question 29

What coup brought the end of the terror?

Answer 29

Coup of thermidor