What Factors Help to Explain the Reign of Terror? Was

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Essay

What factors help to explain the Reign of Terror? Was the "terror" justified or did it demonstrate the excesses of revolutionary fervor?

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Definitions:

Automatic Stabilizers

Financial policies and schemes intended to balance out variations in a country's economic performance, avoiding extra government or policymaker involvement.

Legislative Action

The process by which laws are created, amended, or repealed within a legislative body such as a parliament or congress.

Macroeconomic Activity

The total economic activities and interactions at a national or global level, including production, consumption, saving, and investment.

Nondiscretionary Fiscal Policy

Government policies related to taxation and spending that automatically adjust without the need for explicit action by policy makers.