1. International: struggle for hegemony and Empire outstrips the fiscal resources of the state
2. Political conflict: conflict between the Monarchy and the nobility over the "reform" of the tax system led to paralysis and bankruptcy.
3. The Enlightenment: impulse for reform intensifies political conflicts; reinforces traditional aristocratic constitutionalism, one variant of which was laid out in Montequieu's Spirit of the Laws; introduces new notions of good government, the most radical being popular sovereignty, as in Rousseau's Social Contract [1762]; the attack on the regime and privileged class by the Literary Underground of "Grub Street;" the broadening influence of public opinion.
4. Social antagonisms between two rising groups: the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie
5. Ineffective ruler: Louis XVI
6. Economic hardship, especially the agrarian crisis of 1788-89 generates popular discontent and disorders caused by food shortages.
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The primary causes of the French Revolution were:
1.) Bankruptcy.
2.) The age of enlightenment; made people want to move forward.
3.) Failed ruler King Louis XVI
4.) Uneven taxes between the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd estates.
5.) "Inspiration" from the American Revolution.
There was an outdated class system, a financial crisis, a food shortage. The last reason was enlightenment ideas.
A study of the causes of the American Revolution of 1776, the French Revolution of 1789, and the Russian Revolution of 1917 best supports the generalization that revolution is most likely to occur when?
there were many social, economic, and political problems.
deficit (debt) estate general social injustice economic injustice american revolution i dnt noe if these r short term but they r definitly causes!
Dumbledore was not a french monarch and was not beheaded during the french revolution
The French Revolution took place between 1789 and 1799.