The Reign of Terror (17th Century) pt. 2

Question 1

Republic of Virtue

Answer 1

Sacrifices ones own interests for the good of government

Question 2

June-July 1794

Answer 2

The Reign Terror

Question 3

Why Terror is used

Answer 3

To scare citizens into listening

Question 4

Victims

Answer 4

1. Marie Antoinette
2. Girondists
3. Women who demanded equality (Olympia de Gouge)
4. Complainers of bread prices
5. People who used Mademoiselle and Monsieur
6. Not being excited enough about the war
7. Neighbors turning in neighbors

Question 5

Robespierre didn’t…

Answer 5

embrace Christianity

Question 6

Since Robespierre didn’t embrace Christianity, it leads to…

Answer 6

De-Christianization of Paris

Question 7

The De-Christinization changed…

Answer 7

The whole calendar. There were now ten days in a week, leaving three weeks in a month.

Question 8

Year 1 is now…

Answer 8

1792

Question 9

Christians God is now

Answer 9

God of Reason

Question 10

Destroyed…

Answer 10

churches and renamed streets such as Saint Paul

Question 11

The Cathedral of Notre Dame is now…

Answer 11

Temple of Reason

Question 12

George Danton

Answer 12

A member of CPS is growing tired of the Reign of Terror

Question 13

He is executed by…

Answer 13

his old friend Robespierre

Question 14

Law of 22 Prairial

Answer 14

No evidence is needed to be admitted. Robespierre and Robespierrests would execute anyone at will

Question 15

July 26, 1794

Answer 15

Robes. comes in with a list, “I’ve got a list of traitors, and tomorrow I shall read them off.”

Question 16

Fall of Robespierre

Answer 16

The people shouted him down when he came in the next day. He is then arrested and taken to city hall where he isn’t checked for weapons. Robespierre shoots his own jaw off, but it doesn’t kill him until the next day when he is guillotined.

Question 17

Thermidorian Reaction

Answer 17

The aftermath of the Reign of Terror

Question 18

Tempering of the Revolution

Answer 18

Violence is less, but it is still there

Question 19

Citizens are

Answer 19

tired of the Reign of Terror

Question 20

Remaining Girondists

Answer 20

are returned to power in the Convention

Question 21

Diminished

Answer 21

CPS’S Powers

Question 22

Outlawed

Answer 22

Paris Commune

Question 23

San-Culottes…

Answer 23

lost political power

Question 24

Convention lifts…

Answer 24

bread prices, causing a riot

Question 25

October 5, 1795

Answer 25

San-Culottes and royalists (king’s followers) raise a revolt against the Convention, but it’s crushed by Napoleon Bonaparte.

Question 26

White Terror

Answer 26

Cleansings of the country by executing and murdering Jacobins (the radical ones.)

Question 27

Treaties of Basel

Answer 27

Concluded peace with Prussia and Spain

Question 28

The Directory

Answer 28

New government created by the new constitution in the year 3

Question 29

Bicameral

Answer 29

Two houses instead of one

Question 30

Executive Branch…

Answer 30

Has five presidents to carry out the laws, but they end up being corrupted and putting money in their own pockets.