MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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Not enough food
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People were starving
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price of bread continued to rise
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Detailed explanation-1: -France’s Financial Crisis: 1783–1788.
Detailed explanation-2: -Throughout the 18th century, France faced a mounting economic crisis. A rapidly growing population had outpaced the food supply. A severe winter in 1788 resulted in famine and widespread starvation in the countryside. Rising prices in Paris brought bread riots.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -The steady increase in royal power in France was dramatically interrupted in 1648 by the outbreak of a series of challenges to absolutism that came to be known collectively as the Fronde.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.