Terror: Machinery of the Terror

Question 1

Danton - Terror (Popular Movements)

Answer 1

Let us be terrible so that the people will not have to be

Question 2

William Doyle - Causes of Terror

Answer 2

it was resistance that made the revolution become violent

Question 3

Summary - Law of Suspects

Answer 3

17 September 1793
1) Allowed for the arbitrary arrest of anyone suspected to be a counter-revolutionary

Question 4

What was the Law of Suspects?

Answer 4

Allowed the Republic to arrest anyone deemed a counter-revolutionary

Question 5

Summary - Law of 22 Prairial (2)

Answer 5

10 June 1794
1) No defence permitted for those facing the revolutionary tribunal
2) Allowed for deputies to be arrested and subsequently executed
3) Ruling based on revolutionary conscience

Question 6

Summary - Law of 14 Frimaire (3)

Answer 6

4 December 1793
1) Outlined the role of the CPS and CGS
2) Legalised the use of Terror
3) Ended the power of the sans-culottes
4) Reinforced the dictatorship

Question 7

Dylan Rees - 14 Frimaire

Answer 7

marked the complete reversal of the principles of 1789…and many of the characteristics of the ancien regime reappeared

Question 8

Revolutionary Tribunal

Answer 8

Created on 10 March 1793 to quicken the trials of those sent to death