GK
WORLD HISTORY
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Question
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money spent on the American Revolution
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Marie Antoinette’s lavish spending
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the 1st and 2nd estates did not pay taxes
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all of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The French government borrowed money for war because they didn’t get enough money from taxes. The tax system was inefficient. The clergy [church] and nobility, the wealthiest classes in French society, held 90% of the wealth, but they were exempt from taxes.
Detailed explanation-2: -The causes of the French Revolution can be narrowed to five main factors: the Estate System, absolutism, Enlightenment ideas, food shortages, and the American Revolution. The Estate System placed people into groups based on birth and was known as the Ancien Regime.
Detailed explanation-3: -Louis XIV had left France deeply in debt due to 7 years war and American revolution. Louis XIV had left France deeply in debt due to 7 years war and American revolution. Bad harvests in the late 1780s sent food prices soaring and brought hunger to the poorer peasants and the city dwellers.