Zusammenfassung der Ressource
THE FRENCH
REVELUTION
- long-term causes
- taxes
- taxing nobles
- third estate burden
- unequal society
- fuedal triangle
- poorest peole taxed the most
- wars
- the American revelution inspired it
- King and Queen
- irresponsible king
- can't use political power properly
- money
- increasing government debt
- polotics
- absolute monarchy
- religion
- influence from America
- new religious ideas introduced
- short-term causes
- polotics
- the third estate were locked out of the
meeting so they started meeting on a
empty tennis court
- money
- in 1789 France was bankrupt
- King and Queen
- nobody understood the king's
plan for the 3 estates to meet
- wars
- war debt
- unequal society
- estates 1 and 2 got 2/3 of the vote
- religion
- the Church didn't want a change in the tax system
- taxes
- France had a big debt and had to change the tax system