FR - section 7  - hard - French Revolution Economic Policies Quiz
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What did the National Constituent Assembly do regarding the guilds?

  • Regulated their activities
  • Strengthened their influence
  • Ignored their existence
  • Suppressed them (correct)

How did the National Constituent Assembly address the issue of uniform weights and measures?

  • Standardized only grain measurements
  • Established the metric system (correct)
  • Implemented a regional measurement system
  • Abolished all measurement standards

What was the impact of the Chapelier Law enacted by the National Constituent Assembly?

  • Encouraged workers’ unions
  • Forbidden workers’ associations (correct)
  • Provided financial support to workers
  • Established worker representation in the Assembly

How did the National Constituent Assembly address the royal debt?

<p>Did not repudiate it (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the major blunder of the National Constituent Assembly?

<p>The Civil Constitution of the Clergy (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What led to further inflation, religious schism, and civil war in France?

<p>The decision to finance the debt by confiscating and selling church property (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did the National Constituent Assembly authorize in December 1789 to finance the debt?

<p>Issuance of assignats (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the initial value of assignats guaranteed by?

<p>Revenue from the sale of church property (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the consequence of the acceptability of assignats to the public?

<p>They began to circulate as currency (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did the Civil Constitution of the Clergy transform the Roman Catholic Church in France into?

<p>A branch of the secular state (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did the Civil Constitution of the Clergy reduce the number of bishoprics to?

<p>83 (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did the Civil Constitution of the Clergy provide for the election of?

<p>Pastors and bishops (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did the Assembly do to clergy who did not take the oath to support the Civil Constitution of the Clergy?

<p>Designated them as 'refractory' and removed them from clerical functions (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did the pope's condemnation of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy mark the opening of?

<p>A Roman Catholic offensive against the revolution and liberalism (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did the émigrés seek to foment in countries near the French border?

<p>Counterrevolution (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who was among the most important of the émigrés?

<p>The king's younger brother, the count of Artois (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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