16 Questions
What did the National Constituent Assembly do regarding the guilds?
Suppressed them
How did the National Constituent Assembly address the issue of uniform weights and measures?
Established the metric system
What was the impact of the Chapelier Law enacted by the National Constituent Assembly?
Forbidden workers’ associations
How did the National Constituent Assembly address the royal debt?
Did not repudiate it
What was the major blunder of the National Constituent Assembly?
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy
What led to further inflation, religious schism, and civil war in France?
The decision to finance the debt by confiscating and selling church property
What did the National Constituent Assembly authorize in December 1789 to finance the debt?
Issuance of assignats
What was the initial value of assignats guaranteed by?
Revenue from the sale of church property
What was the consequence of the acceptability of assignats to the public?
They began to circulate as currency
What did the Civil Constitution of the Clergy transform the Roman Catholic Church in France into?
A branch of the secular state
What did the Civil Constitution of the Clergy reduce the number of bishoprics to?
83
What did the Civil Constitution of the Clergy provide for the election of?
Pastors and bishops
What did the Assembly do to clergy who did not take the oath to support the Civil Constitution of the Clergy?
Designated them as 'refractory' and removed them from clerical functions
What did the pope's condemnation of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy mark the opening of?
A Roman Catholic offensive against the revolution and liberalism
What did the émigrés seek to foment in countries near the French border?
Counterrevolution
Who was among the most important of the émigrés?
The king's younger brother, the count of Artois
Test your knowledge of the economic policies enacted by the National Constituent Assembly during the French Revolution. Explore topics such as the suppression of guilds, liberation of the grain trade, and the adoption of the metric system through this quiz.
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