What Were the French "National Workshops

question 8

Multiple Choice

What were the French "National Workshops"?

• A)government programs that paid the unemployed to build roads and level hills
• B)government workshops where guns and ammunition were manufactured
• C)private factories confiscated by the government
• D)government schools where young Frenchmen learned trades
• E)a code name for revolutionary clubs

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