They were attempting to combat monopolies in order to end the continuing shortage of food in Paris. This is because there was an idea that profiteers were manipulating the marketplace by charging abnormally high prices of grain. Therefore the committee of public safety passed the decree against profiteers.
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The North had more soldiers, more factories, and more transportation roads than the South. The only upper hand that the South had over the North was better leadership.
The group included 120 wagons, about 1,000 people and thousands of livestock. Their trek began on May 22 and lasted five months. It effectively opened the floodgates of pioneer migration along the Oregon Trail and became known as the "Great Migration" of 1843.
According to the passage, the people were never given an answer as to why they were arrested.
In The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation V-VII ,Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn describes people´s confusion as they are taken into custody but are not explained the reason for their arrest. "Me? What for?" they people wonder but find no answer to the question.