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The Reign of Terror

The Reign of Terror. By Farrah Hawkrider. What was the committee of Public Safety?. The committee of Public Safety was formed by the National Convention in March 1793 It is a committee that possess the power to take anything from anybody as long as it supported the war

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The Reign of Terror

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  1. The Reign of Terror By FarrahHawkrider

  2. What was the committee of Public Safety? • The committee of Public Safety was formed by the National Convention in March 1793 • It is a committee that possess the power to take anything from anybody as long as it supported the war • Dominant during the terror between 1793-1794 Description of Committee: • Made up of twelve members • Eight of the members were lawyers • Not all members were always present • Members worked to save the revolution from - Foreign invasion - Civil war

  3. What was the community of Public Safety ? (continued) Robespierre was elected to the committee on 1793 • Shared collective responsibility with his 11 colleagues • Became the dominant leader and decision maker Radical members were Danton, Louis-Antione Saint-Just, Lazare Carnot, and Collot d’ Herbois

  4. Role during the terror • Main role of the committee • Mobilize the economy • Organize the war effort: Administration of recruitment Organize the supplies • Methods used to control people: • Undemocratic decrees • Intimidation • brutality • Justification for methods • National security concerns • Indentifying the countries enemies

  5. Causes of the Reign Terror External threats • War with Austria and Prussia • European monarchs were angry over the death of King Louis XVI Internal Threats • Terror was intended to locate and kill traitors • Men in power used the terror to kill political rivals • men and women, rich and poor, high-ranking politician, lowest criminal- all could be swept up and executed

  6. Vendee Civil War • First region in which the organized into a counter-revolution • Reasons for the rebellion • Changes to the Catholic church under the civil constitution of the clergy. • Many perish priests refused to take the oath of loyalty • Peasants supported their priest against government • National convention decreed a draft of 300,000 men • Verdeans wanted to fight the revolutionaries • didn’t want to fight Foreign enemies in war • Royal and Catholic Army was formed to fight the Revolution • Vendee ended with many peasant deaths and government control of the area

  7. Terror Laws • Law of Suspects • Passed on September 17 , 1793 • All ex-nobles, including women and children, faced arrest unless they could prove that they supported the revolution • Anyone who criticized the revolution faced arrest • Surveillance committees sprang up throughout the country to enforce the laws of suspects. • A legal system open to abuse and which neighbor could turn on neighbor was created. • Anyone could denounce someone they did not like, leading to that person’s arrest • Within a year, about 300,000 people were arrested under the law of suspects.

  8. Law of Prairial • Passed on June 10, 1974 • Created more repressive measures to catch enemies of the revolution • “the revolutionary tribunal is instituted in order to punish the enemies of the people”. • Listed the punishment for the enemies • each citizen can arrest the counter revolutionaries • enemies were arraign before magistries • the accused were tried in public warts • punishment was death

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