The Thermidorian Reaction 1794-95

Question 1

When did the Thermidorians end State financial support of the Church?

Answer 1

September 1794

Question 2

When was the Law of 22nd Prairial revoked?

Answer 2

1st August 1794

Question 3

When was the Jacobin Club closed?

Answer 3

November 1794

Question 4

When was the General maximum on prices abolished?

Answer 4

December 1794

Question 5

What happened during the Winter of 1794-5?

Answer 5

It was a harsh winter which coincided with poor harvests, so many people starved to death

Question 6

When was religious freedom granted?

Answer 6

21st February 1795

Question 7

When was the Uprising of Germinal and what happened?

Answer 7

1st April 1795
10,000 unarmed civilians marched on the Convention to demand bread and the release of former CPS members
the demonstrators gave up when the National Guard arrived

Question 8

How did the White Terror affect the South, Paris and the Vendée?

Answer 8

South: April-May 1795 people rose up against people who had benefited from the Revolution
Paris: Gangs of youths called the ‘jeunesse dorée’ would beat up Jacobins and sans-culottes
Vendée: The Chouans, groups of 50-100 men, attacked grain convoys and murdered government officials

Question 9

When was the uprising of Prairial and what happened?

Answer 9

20th-21st May 1795
A large crowd of women, workers and National Guardsmen marched on the Convention to demand bread, leading to the death of a deputy in the chaos
Forces loyal to the Convention then gathered in front of the Convention to defend it, but the gunners btrayed the Convention and went to the rebels, but no one actually opened fire

Question 10

When was the Revolutionary tribunal abolished?

Answer 10

31st May 1795

Question 11

What happened in the Vendée in June 1795?

Answer 11

3,000 émigrés troops joined the Chouans, meaning the rebels now numbered around 22,000. General Hoche surrounded the rebels and took 6,000 prisoners, and executing 640 rebels. Hoche was then given an army of 140,000 to crush any more rebellions in the Vendée

Question 12

When did Louis XVIII issue the Declaration of Verona and why was this not really a threat?

Answer 12

24th June 1795
He stated that he would restore the Ancien Régime and give Church land back to the Church, which was hugely unpopular in France