22 Questions
What did the National Constituent Assembly do in terms of economic policy?
Suppressed the guilds and liberated the grain trade
What did the National Constituent Assembly establish to provide the nation with uniform weights and measures?
The metric system
What did the Assembly do to workers' organizations?
Forbidden workers' associations
What did the Assembly place the burden of proof on the peasants for in 1789?
Ridding themselves of residual feudal dues
What did the Assembly interpret the efforts of workers to organize as?
A re-creation of the abolished guilds of the Old Regime
What did the Assembly do with the financial crisis that occasioned the calling of the Estates General?
Did not repudiate the royal debt
What did the Assembly do to the residual feudal dues of the peasants?
Required them to rid themselves of the residual feudal dues
What did the Chapelier Law forbid?
Workers' associations
What did the Assembly leave peasants and workers to the freedom and mercy of?
The marketplace
What did the Assembly do with the guilds of the Old Regime?
Abolished them
What did the Assembly do with the Church lands?
Confiscated them
What did the Assembly establish to provide the nation with uniform weights and measures?
The metric system
What did the National Constituent Assembly do to finance the debt?
Confiscated and sold the land and property of the Roman Catholic Church
What was the outcome of the issuance of assignats?
They began to circulate as currency and led to inflation
What did the Civil Constitution of the Clergy do?
Transformed the Roman Catholic Church in France into a branch of the secular state
What was the reaction of the French church to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy?
Created immense opposition within the French church
What did the émigrés do after leaving France?
Settled in countries near the French border and sought to foment counterrevolution
How did the assignats impact the economy?
The value of the assignats began to fall and inflation increased
What was the impact of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy on the French church?
It embittered relations between the French church and the state
What did the National Constituent Assembly do to address the financial problem?
Substituted new land taxes for old indirect taxes
How did the pope react to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy?
Condemned the Civil Constitution of the Clergy and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
What did the National Constituent Assembly do to deal with the shortage of officials for tax collection?
There were not enough officials to collect the new taxes
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