French Rev AOS2 Lesson 15

The Assignat was... (select all correct answers)

• Based on the price of gold

• A paper-based currency

• Based on the sale of church lands

• Almost worthless by 1795

• More reliable than coins

Laws which fixed the price of food and other goods were knows as the Laws of...

• Management

• Military

• Minimum

• Maximum

• Money

The Enrages were... (select all correct answers).

• Radical

• Right Wing

• Led by Jacques Roux

• Supported the free market

• Displeased by the lack of material/practical gains after the Revolution of 1789

The Enrages demanded... (select all correct answers).

• Price controls on grain

• The Assignat to be the only legal tender/currency

• The Terror to stop

• Taxes to be increased on the rich

• More profiteering and hoarding of grain

The Law of Suspects (17 September 1793)

• Increased the power of the Committee of Public Safety

• Increased profiteering and hoarding

• Increased personal freedom

• Was more extreme than the Law of 22 Prairial (10 June 1794)

• Led to fair trials