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D) She repealed the tax increases of the midcentury and shifted some of the tax burden to the heretofore tax-exempt nobility.
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