FR - section 7 - easy - French Revolution Economic Policies Quiz

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What did the National Constituent Assembly do in terms of economic policy?

Enforced the guilds and regulated the grain trade

Supported the guilds and monopolized the grain trade

Suppressed the guilds and liberated the grain trade (correct)

Ignored the guilds and restricted the grain trade

What did the National Constituent Assembly establish to provide the nation with uniform weights and measures?

The traditional system

The imperial system

The customary system

The metric system (correct)

What did the Assembly do to workers' organizations?

Forbidden workers' associations (correct)

Ignored workers' associations

Regulated workers' associations

Encouraged workers' associations

What did the Assembly place the burden of proof on the peasants for in 1789?

Ridding themselves of residual feudal dues Signup and view all the answers

What did the Assembly interpret the efforts of workers to organize as?

A re-creation of the abolished guilds of the Old Regime Signup and view all the answers

What did the Assembly do with the financial crisis that occasioned the calling of the Estates General?

Did not repudiate the royal debt Signup and view all the answers

What did the Assembly do to the residual feudal dues of the peasants?

Required them to rid themselves of the residual feudal dues Signup and view all the answers

What did the Chapelier Law forbid?

Workers' associations Signup and view all the answers

What did the Assembly leave peasants and workers to the freedom and mercy of?

The marketplace Signup and view all the answers

What did the Assembly do with the guilds of the Old Regime?

Abolished them Signup and view all the answers

What did the Assembly do with the Church lands?

Confiscated them Signup and view all the answers

What did the Assembly establish to provide the nation with uniform weights and measures?

The metric system Signup and view all the answers

What did the National Constituent Assembly do to finance the debt?

Confiscated and sold the land and property of the Roman Catholic Church Signup and view all the answers

What was the outcome of the issuance of assignats?

They began to circulate as currency and led to inflation Signup and view all the answers

What did the Civil Constitution of the Clergy do?

Transformed the Roman Catholic Church in France into a branch of the secular state Signup and view all the answers

What was the reaction of the French church to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy?

Created immense opposition within the French church Signup and view all the answers

What did the émigrés do after leaving France?

Settled in countries near the French border and sought to foment counterrevolution Signup and view all the answers

How did the assignats impact the economy?

The value of the assignats began to fall and inflation increased Signup and view all the answers

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 Signup and view all the answers

What did the National Constituent Assembly do to address the financial problem?

Substituted new land taxes for old indirect taxes Signup and view all the answers

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 Signup and view all the answers

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 Signup and view all the answers