2.6- Government By Terror Flashcards
When was the committee of general security set up?
October 1792
What did the committee of general security (CGS) do?
Sent people it regarded as traitors to be tried by the revolutionary tribunal
When was the revolutionary tribunal set up?
March 1793
What was needed to get a job?
Certificates of citizenship
How did you get a certificate of citizenship?
The sans culottes issued them to people who were loyal to the revolution
When was the committee of public safety (CPS) set up?
April 1793
What was the committee of public safety designed to do?
Coordinate the war effort
When was the levee en masse decreed?
August 1793
What was the levee en masse?
Said that all unmarried men from 18 to 25 were subject to conscription, and church bells and silver were confiscated
What was the law of suspects?
Stated that anyone who believed in royalism, girondism, or federalism, had left France since the beginning of the revolution, had been a noble, or didn’t have a certificate of citizenship was a traitor
What was the law of general maximum?
Fixed grain prices and wages
Why was the law of general maximum unpopular with peasants?
They sold the grain and weren’t paid wages
What was the armée révolutionnaire?
A group of mainly sans culottes who rounded up traitors, raided the countryside for grain, confiscated church silver, and established revolutionary justice in the south and west
When was the law of general maximum, law of suspects, and formation of the armée révolutionnaire?
September 1793
What was the laws of ventose?
Distributed the property of suspects to the poor
