The Aftermath Of The Terror Flashcards
1st measure following the terror (2)
31 July
Vacancies on CPS + CGS filled by dantonists and โthe plainโ
2nd measure following the terror (2)
1 august
Law of 22 Prairial was repealed = many released
3rd measure following the terror (3)
10 august
Revolutionary tribunal reorganised
Exile to Guiana in SA rather than guillotine
4th measure following the terro (3)
24 august
The law of revolutionary government = complete reorganisation of government and admin away from centralised structure
The law of revolutionary government what (3++++)
Revolutionary committees were reduced = one per department = Broke power of sc into sections
Central gov in hands of 16 committees responsible to convention (rev changes of memeber ship) = reduced power of CPS + CGS = CPS powers limited to diplomacy, military ops and war material
New represents en mission dispatched to provinces = ovsee chnages + ensure jacobins removed from positions of authority
5th measure after terror (3)
31 august
Power of Paris commune reduced
Completely abolished in 1795
September measures (4+)
18 September
Church and state separated
State stopped paying clerical salaries
Ended โconstitutional churchโ - acted as gov branch
November measures (2)
12 November
Jacobin club closed down + all affiliated societies disbanded
December measures (3+)
24 December
Law of maximum repealed
Public workshops that established as part of terror attempt to help poor = restored to private ownership
Further measure in 1795 (4+)
February = toleration for all religion proclaimed (some restrictions on catholic practices)
April = represents en mission abolished
May = revolutionary tribunal abolished
October = law of suspects repealed
What is white terror
Name given to a series of purges and campaigns were Thermidorians took action against proponents of the terror
Who supported the Thermidorians
Muscadins and jeunesse doree (gilded youth)
What did muscadins and GY do (6)
Wore fashionable clothes
Armed with canes and wooden clubs
Attacked SC and jacobins
Felled trees of liberty
Trampled on tricolore cockades
Forced closure of pro jacobin newspapers
Why and what muscadins (2)
Means musk perfume
Well off bourgeoisie
Specific things muscadins did (3)
Helped in destruction of jacobin clubs
Led campaign to de-martyrise the former popular hero Marat
Helped defend the convention in 1795
Violent massacre where + when (3)
Lyons
May 1795
Jacobin prisoner hauled from cells and slaughtered
Where was threat of stability coming from (3)
Royalists - wanted to see Catholic Church restored to former self
Returning emigres
Jacobins
Desire of emigres (2)
Regain their property
Some wanted restoration of monarchy