The Great Fear Is the Term Historians Use to Describe

question 52

Multiple Choice

The Great Fear is the term historians use to describe

• A) the fear that gripped most of France when the Committee of Public Safety adopted a campaign of terror, especially the use of the guillotine, as a way of crushing opposition.
• B) the panic of peasants who suspected an aristocratic conspiracy when unemployment and crop failures drove numerous beggars and vagrants to wander the countryside.
• C) the dismay that spread among aristocrats when Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette were apprehended during their flight to Varennes and returned to Paris.
• D) the panic that drove the sans-culottes to ever more radical measures when they suspected that monarchists were plotting to repress the Revolution.

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Definitions:

Government Proposal

A suggestion or plan put forward by an individual, organization, or government entity aiming to address a specific problem or situation, often requiring approval or funding from governing bodies.

Constitutional Convention

A gathering for the purpose of writing a new constitution or amending an existing one.

Articles of Confederation

The first constitution of the United States, which created a loose alliance of sovereign states with a weak central government.

Revolutionary War

A conflict from 1775 to 1783 in which the thirteen American colonies won independence from Great Britain.