Machinery of Terror significance Flashcards
CGS
It created a powerful centralised body whose role was to identify internal enemies. The formation of this body legitimised and accelerated the pursuit of “internal enemies.”
Representatives en mission
Increased centralised control: ensured that the regions complied with the governments wishes.
Revolutionary tribunal
Provided a mechanism for the government to rid itself of political rivals
Comites de surveillance
Created bodies of people, at regional Department level that were willing to carry out the wishes of the CGS and CPS and compile lists of potential counter-revolutionaires in for trial by the Revolutionary Tribunal.
CPS
Created an executive body whose power ended up exceeding the Convention that had created it.
First law of maximum
A turning point in the revolution where the interests of the sans culottes became more important than those of the bourgeois revolutionaries.
Death penalty for hoarders
A significant escalation of the Terror and one that reflected the mood of the sans-culottes and their anger at bourgeois businessmen.
Levée en masse
Marks the mobilisation of the entire nation toward war.
Armée Revolutionnaire
Mobilisation and further empowering of the sans-culottes
Law of suspects
Undermines rule of law further and gives government increased control over judiciary and the people
Law of General maximum
An attempt to further control prices and wages in the economy
Law 14 Frimaire II (Law of Revolutionary Government)
Legitimised the continuance of the CPS as chief executive body and the suspension of new constitution.
Laws of Ventose
An attempt to redistribute wealth in society
Law of Prairial
Rights of the individual and the governments’s claim to be administering justice both severely undermined. Law also brings CPS into further conflict with CGS (overlap).
