L14: The Expulsion of the Girondins

Select the TWO that reflect the correct economic policies of the sans-culottes & the Girondins

• Sans-culottes: price maximums

• Girondins: free trade & free market

• Sans-culottes: free trade & free market

• Girondins: price maximums

Vergniaud: "So, citizens, it must be ​ (a)   that the Revolution, like Saturn, successively​​ (b)   its children, will engender finally, only ​ (c)   . ... Let us prove that we know how to be ​ (d)   with a ​ (e)   ."

• feared
• devouring
• despotism
• happy
• Republic

SELECT ALL THAT APPLY:

What mistakes did the Girondins make that turned the sans-culottes against them even more so?

• Arrest & trial of Marat

• Arrest of Hebert

• Establishment of the Commission of Twelve to investigate the Revolutionary Commune

• Call for price maximums on grain

​ ​ (a)   : "The danger within France comes from ​ (b)   and to ​​ (c)   them we must rally ​ (d)   ."

• Robespierre
• the middle classes
• defeat
• the people

Date of the expulsion of the Girondins from the National Convention:

How large was the sans-culottes militia that marched on the Convention to demand the expulsion of the Girondins?

• 20,000

• 30,000

• 40,000

• 50,000

Why did the Convention give in to the demands of the sans-culottes and expel the Girondin deputies?

• They also distrusted the Girondins

• They had been wanting to since 1792

• The sans-culottes had cannons pointed at the Convention & armed guards at the exits of the meeting hall

• The sans-culottes had presented a petition and protested peacefully

Why was the expulsion of the Girondins significant for the remaining deputies in the Convention?

• They were now no longer immune to expulsion & arrest

• They were able to pull out of the War now

• They held new elections to replace the arrested deputies

• They were now immune to being arrested