MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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the bourgeoisie’s refusal to pay taxes.
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inadequate monetary reserves.
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corruption among local parish priests.
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inflation and widespread unemployment.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The spark that ignited the French Revolution (1789-1799), one of the most important events in modern global history, was actually government debt, accumulated during the course of two wars, and the desire of King Louis XVI to increase taxes to pay off that debt.
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: -The economic crisis which preceded the 1848 revolution began as a traditional crisis of agricultural origins, like preceding revolutions in 1830 and 1789: a poor cereals ‘ harves t increased the price of bread, the essential nourishment, and as a result those of substitute products.