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Causes of the Terror - Demands of sans-culottes (instruments of Terror…
Causes of the Terror - Demands of sans-culottes
instruments of Terror
used by gov
enforced conscription
rev armies
watch committee/representatives on a mission
believed they needed to defend Russia
increased violence
attack on Girondins
May 1793
Storming of Bastille
Invasion of the tuileires
october days
september massacres
Economic Pressures
Why?
Drought
grain reduced
War
Sans-culottes
inflation
assignats below 1/3
Price controls
General maximum
gave sans - culottes more power
Cause of war