Aftermath Of The Terror

Question 1

31st July (13 Thermidor) 1794

Answer 1

vacancies on the cps and cgs from round of guilloting killed off mostly by moderate dantonists and members of the plain.

Question 2

1st August 14 Thermidor 1794

Answer 2

Law of 22 prairial repealed

Question 3

10th august 1794

Answer 3

Revolutionary tribunal reorganised, number of guillotines significantly decreased exile to Guinea used as alternative

Question 4

24th August 1794

Answer 4

Reorganisation of the government due to law on revolutionary government
Revolutionary committees reduced to 1 per department
New representatives en mission saw removal of jacobin power

Question 5

31st August 1794

Answer 5

Powers of the Paris commune reduced

Question 6

18th September 1795

Answer 6

Church and state were separated
State stopped paying clerical salaries

Question 7

12th November 1795

Answer 7

Jacobin clubs closed

Question 8

24th December 1795

Answer 8

Law of maximum repealed
(Law on price limits)

Question 9

What was the white Terror?

Answer 9

A series of purges and campaigns by the Thermidorians against former proponents of the terror. Attacked sans-culottes and jacobins in the street.
Supported by muscadins

Question 10

How was stability threatened by royalists, Catholics and emigrees

Answer 10

Victims of the terror employed violent + aggressive measures to murder local jacobins
Convention attempted to control this however there were many examples of violence towards jacobins. Eg. Lyon May 1795 jacobins hauled from cells and slaughtered.
Royalists wanted Catholic Church to be restored.
High numbers of returning emigress

Question 11

How was the war progressing in 1795

Answer 11

Victory at fleurs June 1794
Proclamation of “Bavarian republic”
Peace of Basel in April 1795 with Prussia

Question 12

When was the Germinal rising ?

Answer 12

1st April 1795

Question 13

When was the prairial rising ?

Answer 13

20th/21st May 1795

Question 14

When was the Vendémiare rising?

Answer 14

5th October 1795

Question 15

Who were the protagonists in the Germinal rising?

Answer 15

Sans-Culottes

Question 16

Who were the protagonists in the Prairial rising?

Answer 16

Sansculottes men + women - armed

Question 17

Who were the protagonists in the Vendemiare rising?

Answer 17

Royalists
Monarchists

Question 18

Aims of those involved in the Germinal Rising?

Answer 18

Demanded bread and the constitution of 1793

Question 19

What were the aims of the Prairial rising?

Answer 19

Demanded release of jacobin prisoners and the instatement of the constitution of 1793
New controls to ensure a better supply of food in the capital

Question 20

Aims of the Vendemiare rising

Answer 20

Belief that a plebiscite held in September to win support for non-monarchical constitution had been rigged.

Question 21

What happened during the Germinal uprising ?

Answer 21

10,000 invaded the convention with demands for bread
Unarmed and unorganised
National guardsmen arrived and they withdrew resistance

Question 22

What happened during the Prairial rising?

Answer 22

Forced way into meeting hall and murdered deputy Jean-Bertrand Féraud, paraded his head on a pike
20,000 sans-culottes on 2nd day loaded cannon on the convention alongside national guardsmen

Question 23

What happened during the Vendemiare rising?

Answer 23

25,000 Parisians marched on the convention
Royalist groups surrounded the convention outnumbering republics 6:1
Bonaparte working with Juachim Murat fired 40 canons

Question 24

Government reaction + results of Germinal

Answer 24

Convention placed Paris under Martial Law
Gave command of the city to general Pichegru
Sought out and arrested those suspected to be suspicious
Result:
Sped up deportations of former Montagnards and ordered disarming in Paris and the Provences

Question 25

Government reaction and results of Prairial

Answer 25

Convention agreed to establish a food commission and called in troops to drive out the rebels
Muscadins helped to defend the convention
40,000 soldiers called to dispel crowds
Results:
Sans-culottes withdrew from convention and prevented further trouble by marching troops to Fallbourg Sanint-Antoine and forced surrender of weapons.
Those presumed leaders or bearing weapons were executed.

Question 26

Government reaction and results of Vendemiare

Answer 26

News of a royalist army caused the convention to assemble three battalions by calling on unemployed jacobin army officers
Napoleon commanded 5000-6000 troops
Results:
300 royalists killed