What Was Empress Catherine II's Response to the Pugachev Rebellion

question 27

Multiple Choice

What was Empress Catherine II's response to the Pugachev rebellion, a massive uprising by the long-oppressed serfs of Russia in 1773?

• A) She increased the nobles' power over their serfs and harshly punished anyone who criticized serfdom.
• B) She promulgated laws easing the legal restrictions that had prevented serfs from leaving family plots, earning independent livelihoods, and marrying without their feudal lords' permission.
• C) She declared war on Prussia as a way of diverting attention away from social problems at home.
• D) She repealed the tax increases of the midcentury and shifted some of the tax burden to the heretofore tax-exempt nobility.

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