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6. the Jacobin government was a/an.....

  • social government
  • club
  • dictatorship
  • assembly

7. when did the deputies of the CPS pass a decree that suspended the constitution with its one man one vote?

  • March 1791
  • October 1793
  • December 1792
  • January 1794

8. by when did the Jacobin Government succeed in the dictatorship of the CPS?

  • beginning of 1794
  • a long time ago, in a galaxy far far far away
  • end of 1793
  • september 1793

9. when were the Indulgents removed, convicted and guillotined the next day?

  • 23rd August 1794
  • 26th September 1794
  • 5th April 1794
  • 19th March 1794

10. when was the trial of 21 Girondins begin?

  • 13th June 1789
  • 22nd October 1793
  • when they felt like it
  • 23rd March 1790

11. who did the CPS have control over at the end of 1793?

  • Paris Parlement
  • Sans-Culottes
  • Jacobins
  • Girondins

12. In 1794, the CPS faced which challenges?

  • both answers
  • The Indulgents, a faction led by Danton, campaigned to the end of the terror. The mood had changed in Paris and Robespierre seemed to be siding with the Indulgents.
  • A clemecy committee that was set up.

13. Ture or False: after Thermidor the serviving members of the CPS tried to continue the Terror, but deputies of th eNational Convention reasserted their control to end it.

  • True
  • False
  • why am i still taking this quiz?

14. which groups did the Law of FRimaire confirm had full executive powers, including control of local goverenment, which enabled them to break the power of the sans-culottes in the Paris Commune?

  • only the CGS
  • CGS and CPS
  • Jaconins and CPS
  • only the Jacobins

15. When did the Terror come to an abrupt end in the bloodbath of Thermidor?

  • March 1794
  • October 1794
  • July 1794
  • January 1794
  • May 1794

16. when did the Hébertists get released and accuse both the Indulgents and the CPS of betraying the revolution and called for a popular rising?

  • December 1793
  • Febuary 1794
  • September 1793
  • April 1794

17. True or False: Robespierre and his close associates on the CPs, Couthon and Saint Just, were arrested. Later that day they escaped and went to the Paris Commune to try and rally their supporters against those of the National Convention. They failed.

  • True
  • False

18. Following Danton's fall no one dared challenge the CPS. its surviving members carried on with centralising control and repression and passed new laws. How many members of the CPS remained?

  • 19
  • 23
  • 11
  • 5

19. the Law of General Police banned who from doing what?

  • former nobles and foreigners from living in ports and frontier towns
  • nobles from coming back into the country
  • Sans-culottes from being members of political clubs and speaking publically

20. when were the 21 Girondins convicted and guillotined?

  • 15th December 1793
  • 31st October 1793
  • 23rd May 1793
  • 9th Febuary 1793