MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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Bad harvests in 1787, taxation abuse and the spending of huge sums on court luxuries.
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Bad harvests in 1787, taxation abuse, the spending of huge sums on court luxuries and costly wars.
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Taxation abuse and the spending of huge sums on court luxuries.
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The spending of huge sums on court luxuries and wars and, taxation abuse.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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. By 1789 France was broke.
Detailed explanation-2: -Power Abuses and Unfair Taxation. The monarchs of the Bourbon dynasty, the French nobility, and the clergy became increasingly egregious in their abuses of power in the late 1700s. They bound the French peasantry into compromising feudal obligations and refused to contribute any tax revenue to the French government.
Detailed explanation-3: -People were split into three estates: the first, second, and third, the first being the wealthiest. Political, economic, and social situations were what contributed to people’s desire for change. The three main, or biggest causes of the French Revolution, were taxes, inequality, and lack of reform.
Detailed explanation-4: -Drought, flooding rainfalls or severe frosts could wipe out an entire harvest in a major crop-growing region, driving up the demand for crops from other regions.