The most suitale answer is a. suspected political opponents were jailed or executed.
The Reign of Terror, also known as The Terror, was a period of the French Revolution which lasted from 1793 to 1794. During that year, the Revolutionary government decided to take extreme measures against those who were considered enemies of the Revolution; most of these "enemies" were executed and other died in prison or without a trial.
Adam Smith (1723-1790) synthesized and improved on many of David Hume economic theories to create an economic worldview that would influence global economics until the present.
