mid rev

Question 1

Why was it impossible to set up a constitutional monarchy?

Answer 1

Louis made it difficult, every delay in accepting reforms made the refores more extreme
Church refused new regulations imposed by the national assembly
Parisians were becoming more politicized
rival groups wanted different things
War- foreign intervention and panic

Question 2

Civil constitution of the clergy

Answer 2

The end of consensus, it became a choice between church and revolution

Question 3

popular activism

Answer 3

The people were encouraged to express their views and become politicized
Can culottes forced the legislative assembly to become more radical

Question 4

foreign intervention

Answer 4

Antoinettes brother the king of Prussia announced Pillnitz decoration
France regarded it as a threat and planned for was
War declare april 1792- went badly
Brunswick manifestation july triggered deposition of the king

Question 5

Reforms in church and state

Answer 5

Reforms to local government
to the economy
to the legal system
to the church

Question 6

Catholic opposition to revolution

Answer 6

priests forced to take a vow of loyalty to the rec
if they didnt they were often executed as unpatriotic
Entire areas found priests were subject to presecution which caused many to waver in their support of the rev

Question 7

the clubs

Answer 7

JAcobins
Gordeliers
Sans-culottes

Question 8

causes of the terror

Answer 8

war- threats from other nations 
rivalries amound revolutionaires 
fear of counter rev and activies of the royal family 
deteriorating living conditions 
economic factors

Question 9

significance of Rob

Answer 9

known as the incorruptible
he wanted a republic of virtue thought privet happiness less important than good society
supported law of suspects and the suspension of the constitution and all libertarian ideals of rev
from October 1793- July 1794 government adopted an official policy of ‘Terror’

Question 10

Theoridorians

Answer 10

Mixed group but all of them were fed up with popular democracy and the dominance of sans coluttes
no longer wanted fixed food prices but the chance to allow free trade to restore the economy

Question 11

constitution of directory

Answer 11

in desperation to avoide dictatorship a new government was set up
system of so many checks and balance that the they had to resort to illegal methods to break impasse
almost immediately it resorted to using army under napoleon to defeat royalist protests in the Vendemiare uprising