SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
COLONIES OF FRANCE ENGLAND
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Protestant French not allowed to go there
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Dangerous and inhospitable climate
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France not troubled by overpopulation
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French colonies were constantly under threat of British/Spanish invasion
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Detailed explanation-1: -Rising prices in Paris brought bread riots. By 1789 France was broke. The nobility refused to pay more taxes, and the peasants simply couldn’t. Even the opulent King Louis XVI, fonder of hunting and locksmithing than governing, recognized that a crisis loomed.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the years 1787 – 1789, terrible weather, heavy rain, hard winters and too hot summers led to three very bad harvests in France. This led to peasants and farmers having smaller incomes, while food prices rose sharply. The poor harvests also meant that many French farmers became unemployed.
Detailed explanation-4: -the French kingdom contained roughly nineteen million peasants.