Terror: Outcomes

Question 1

Terror in rural counter-revolutions

Answer 1

Over 70% of all executions were from the Vendee Uprising and Federalist Revolts

Question 2

Executions of the Hebertists

Answer 2

31 March 1794

Question 3

Executions of the Dantonists

Answer 3

5 April 1794

Question 4

Simon Schama - Terror/Violence

Answer 4

From the very beginning - from the Summer of 1789 - violence was the motor of the revolution

Question 5

Alfred Soboul - Necessity of Terror

Answer 5

The Terror, therefore, was in essence an instrument of national and revolutionary defence against rebels and traitors. In this sense it was an important factor if victory was to be won

Question 6

Doyle - Causes of Terror

Answer 6

it was resistance that made the revolution become violent

Question 7

Battle of Fleurus

Answer 7

26 June 1794

Question 8

Intensification of the Terror stat

Answer 8

From
10 March 1793 - 10 June 1794
1250 people in Paris were executed

From 10 June 1794 - 27 July 1794
1375 people in Paris were executed

Question 9

Andress - Progression of Terror

Answer 9

A tightening spiral of repression, persecution, and the pursuit of ideological purity, ending with a procession of innocents to the guillotine

Question 10

Total death tolls of the Terror

Answer 10

Including the Vendee, Federalist uprisings and Paris, it is estimated around 200,000 died in the period of terror