EMERGENCE OF USA
HOW DID THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION INFLUENCE THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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Debt incurred while intervening in foreign conflicts
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Building Louis XVI a new palace to rival Versailles
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New tax laws that put the heaviest burden on the rich
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Wasteful spending by Marie Antoinette and the nobility
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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: -French went into a fiscal crisis due to the increasing national debt the Government was creating. Just in 1789, the Government itself spent half of the anual revenues just to pay the interests of their debts.
Detailed explanation-3: -The main cause of the French Revolution was the despotic rule of Louis XVI, division of French society, rising prices, inspiration of the philosophers, role of middle class.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.