With King Louis XVI leading France as an absolute monarch, people were struggling to cope with rising taxes on one if their daily supplements, grain. This was because of the huge dept France was in from their wars they had been fighting. And with enlightenment thinkers people were thinking differently and wanted change. The 3rd estate had been tormented for a long time, paying all the taxes, and having no power caused a huge struggle among all of them. But when the Revolution started to take place, there was a sudden, dramatic change.
One factor that added to the Tory party’s trouble was that in 1830 there was more outbreaks of social unrest. This was due to high bread prices following a poor harvest in 1829 and sudden slump in exports leading to unemployment in the Midlands and North of England. This was encouraged by thoughts back to the French revolutions and labourers destroyed machinery that was taking over their jobs. Wellington needed to take immediate and firm action, but the Tory government just was not strong enough to combat this
There were various factors behind on why the Estates General was called in 1789 but the two main factors can be seen as the critical financial crisis in France and also the failure of reforms. In 1786, Calonne, the Controller General, told Louis that the country was in the verge of bankruptcy – there were deficit of 112 million being made due to the extravagant and lavish spending of the royal expenditure compared to how much they were earning. In two years, the deficit increased to 126 million livres, worsening the situation. The financial crisis was the result of France being at war for the past 20 years. First, the War of Austrian Succession 1740 to 1748, then Seven Years War which lasted from 1756 to 1763 and caused France to lose huge amounts of overseas territory due to its defeat.
French Revolution In 1789 the common people rose up against the unfair economic situation put upon them by the French Aristocracy. The monarchy spent such great amounts of money it put the country plunging into a large amount of debt. King Louis XVI and his predecessors left the country in poor conditions such as droughts, disease with cattle and massive price increases in goods. The monarchy sought to recover the debt by taxing the common people till they eventually reached the point of starvation and poverty while the King continued to spend money at his own dispense. At the time the United States was hoping to use their alliance with France to gain an advantage over the British, but did not want to lose their much needed trade with the British.
After loaning money to the Continental Congress, especially France, America became profoundly in debt. Those that had loaned money to Continental Congress suffered from the excessive inflation America had during the war, this caused the loans to be worthless. Federalist and other members of the first Constitutional Convention were changed after the American Revolution; the change then reorganized the organization of power to be put into the hands of the federal government in place of having states being able to manage their own taxes and laws. Severe economic troubles produced radical economic and political movements, such as Shays’ Rebellion. The monetary schemes of the states brought floods of paper money, which some of the states,
Ninety or so percent of the gunpowder used in the war was captured or seized by the Navy and issued to its ground forces. Britain basically defeated themselves with their own weapons. Although primarily successful in its attempt to over power the Royal Navy, the Continental Navy was getting exhausted. The George Washington Navy preserved the American cause until the French joined hands and eventually gained independence from the British (Miller 18) Miller reports amidst regulations set up by John Adams, problems were occurring in the Continental Navy that were affecting its missions. Most seamen were reluctant to continue service due to inhumane treatment.
Iluta Urka History 220 The panic of 1873 set off a depression that lasted six years, the longest and most severe that Americans had yet suffered. Thousands of businesses went bankrupt; millions of people lost their jobs, and as usually occurs, voters blamed the party in power for their economic woes. The primary cause of the price depression in the United States was the tight monetary policy that the US followed to get back to the gold standard after the US Civil War. The US government was taking money out of circulation to achieve this goal; therefore there was less available money to facilitate trade. Because of the Panic of 1873, governments depegged their currencies, to save money.
There was a great unrest in France, caused by the harvests, high prices, high taxes, and disturbing questions raised by the Enlightenment Ideas. Peasants formed the largest within the Third Estate, more than 80% of France’s 26 million people. Peasants paid about half their income to the nobles, the Church, and taxes to the king’s agents. They even paid taxes on such basic living supplies as salt. The heavily taxed and discontented Third Estate
Introduction The French Revolution was one of the most relevant events in the modern Western history. This revolutionary movement took place in the last years of the eighteenth century, most precisely between 1789 and 1799. During this period, the monarchy was radically overthrown and the government drastically changed. As this struggle marked a turning point in human society and the world history, France was never to be the same. Causes Louis XVI Wars and Taxation One of the main causes was observed not only in Louis XVI’s sumptuous kingship but also in the disproportionate social and economic condition of the lower classes.
He had complete power and with that power he forced Catholicism and raised taxes on the bourgeoisie to give money to the nobility and the clergy. The French people revolted after he passed the “July Ordinance” which made free press illegal and got rid of his legislators. After Charles X fled, the people elected Luis-Philippe as king. At first the people liked him, but eventually the economy worsened and he had to raise taxes. The people didn’t like that, so they revolted once again in 1848.