MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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they supported free trade
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they were already taxed too heavily
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they wanted to pay no taxes
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they thought the answer was to create more jobs for the Third Estate
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Detailed explanation-1: -French nobles resisted Necker’s financial reforms for what reasons? Because they wanted to recover the feudal powers they had lost under absolute rule. What did the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen state? All male citizens were equal before the law.
Detailed explanation-2: -His greatest financial measures were his use of loans to help fund the French debt and his use of high interest rates rather than raising taxes. The collection of indirect taxes was restored to the farmers-general (1780), but Necker reduced their number by a third and subjected them to sharper scrutiny and control.
Detailed explanation-3: -Though he was a foreigner and a Protestant, Necker was placed in virtual control of French finances, as director of the royal treasury, on October 22, 1776, and was appointed director general of the finances on June 29, 1777.
Detailed explanation-4: -Causes of the French Revolution Not only were the royal coffers depleted, but several years of poor harvests, drought, cattle disease and skyrocketing bread prices had kindled unrest among peasants and the urban poor.