Machinery of Terror purpose

Question 1

CGS

Answer 1

Take responsibility for policing and administration of justice.

Question 2

Réprésentants en mission

Answer 2

Sent to departments to enforce the war effort

Question 3

Revolutionary tribunal

Answer 3

to try counter revolutionaries

Question 4

Comites de Surveillance

Answer 4

Monitored movements of strangers and suspected counter revolutionaries

Question 5

CPS

Answer 5

Responsibility for conduct of war, diplomacy, supplies, control of the army and application of revolutionary laws

Question 6

First law of maximum

Answer 6

Fixed the prices of grain

Question 7

Death penalty for hoarders

Answer 7

Appease the sans-culottes and to put pressure on merchants (bourgeoisie) and farmers

Question 8

Levée en masse

Answer 8

Organised France for total war

Question 9

Armée revolutionnaire

Answer 9

Fought Revolutionary wars

Question 10

Law of suspects

Answer 10

Allowed anyone suspected of being counter-revolutionary to be arrested

Question 11

General Maximum

Answer 11

Set price limits and punished price gouging

Question 12

Law 14 Frimaire II

Answer 12

Extended and centralised the power of the CPS

Question 13

Laws of Ventose

Answer 13

Confiscate the property of exiles and opponents of the Revolution and redistribute it to the needy

Question 14

Law of Prairial

Answer 14

Reform of the Revolutionary Tribunal to speed up executions