2b- Terror Flashcards
(15 cards)
VENDEE RISING, dates
March 1793 to December 1793
VENDEE rising, death toll
8,700: half of the total Terror victims (NB noyades in Nantes)
FEDERALIST revolt, dates
Summer 1793
FEDERALIST revolt, death toll
1,673 in Lyon, and more than 1,000 in Toulon.
Economic considerations to TERROR
Bread loaf 8 sous in 1791, and 12 sous in 1793
When did Terror become “the order of the day”?
September 5th, 1793
Two near immediate impacts of France declaring war on Spain, March 1793?
Nat. Convention sends out 82 deputies to restore public order (March 9th). Revolutionary tribunal established (March 10th).
One immediate impact of the defection of Dumouriez, April 1793?
Committee of Public Safety established
Three steps leading to purge of the Girondins, June 1793?
1: Robespierre calls for an insurrection at the Jacobin club. 2: section leaders to the commune. 3: as many as 100,000 armed citizens surround convention.
When, and what, was the Law of the Maximum?
September 15th, 1793: Maximum price on food goods. (Follow up to May’s wheat/flour controls.)
Two outcomes of the Law of the General Maximum.
A thriving black market and inefficient production.
What was the Law of the Maximum a response to?
Roux and the enragés, as well as March 1793 food riots.
What were three later policies of Robespierre that cost him support?
Arrests leader of the Enragés and Hebertists. Limits to direct democracy in Paris. Maximum of wages, July 1794.
What did the Law of 14 Frimaire establish?
Centralisation (control over representatives on mission), CPS power.
To what extent were the provinces against the Jacobins?
60/83 had opposed the purge of the Girondins.