Groups

Question 1

Bourgeoisie

Answer 1

• Were typically active citizens in Constitutions 1791 and 1795
• June 1791: Le Chapelier Law that prohibited strikes and strengthened the position of employers
• Could afford large plots of prime land

Question 2

Priests and the clergy

Answer 2

- Nat. of Church lan
CCoC
- Oath of loyalty
- Persecution of refractory (September Massacre, Noyades)
- Papal Bulls
- Confiscation of Church metals for war ammo
- Removal of public symbols
- Repealed post Terror

Question 3

Urban workers

Answer 3

• Champ de Mars Massacre
• Tuileries Palace Invasion
• Insurrectionary Commune
• Law of Maximum/Law of General Maximum
• September Massacre
• Journess 12 Germina and 1 Prairial
• Dominant between 1792-94
• Targeted between 1794-95

Question 4

Women

Answer 4

• Women’s March
• Excluded from voting
• Champ de Mars
• Tuileries Palace Invasion
• Law of Maximum/Law of General Maximum
• DORWAC (Olympe de Gouge)
• Advocate for Terror
• Journees 12 Germinal and 1 Prairial (arrested/exiled)
• Politically active

Question 5

Peasants

Answer 5

• 19 June 1790: hereditary and noble titles abolished by the Assembly
• 3 June 1793: biens nationaux (emigre confiscated land) sold in smaller more affordable plots
• 10 June 1973: common land in villages divided equally
• Peasants were free to specialise in crop production after the tithe was abolished

Question 6

Nobility and the meigres

Answer 6

• 1,158 noble men and women were executed during the Terror
• 13,925 male nobles over 12 years of age emigrated
• 19 June 1790: hereditary and noble titles abolished by the Assembly
• 11 Nov 1791: king vetoed Law on Emigres (9 Nov 1791)
• 15% of Second Estate were emigres