French Revolution Dbq
Liang Zhou French Revolution started in 1789 with the accumulated resentment French people had towards the King, Louis XVI. The resentment was accumulated from many aspects, such as unfair treatment, the king’s incompetence and poverty. Social, political and geographic factors is definitely the causes of French revolution. The General Estate was one of the most inhuman systems which planned the seed of revolution. The General Estate was the system used before French Revolution to divide the
French population. The French population was divided in three sectors, clergy, noble and the commoners. People in the third Estate, commoners, had to work and pay tax, whereas the people in the first and second Estate did not. Taxation was collected from the commoners to …show more content…
Every system has its own merit. However, Louis XVI, the king of France, was too incompetent to utilize it. France was one of wealthiest and the most powerful nations in
Europe. However, the entire nation was in debt after Louis the XVI decided to involve in the
American Revolution. The motivation to involve in American Revolution was the French nationalism which the king considered the British was France’s ultimate enemy and tried to depress them in anyway as possible. However, the decision Louis the XVI made was unwise decision. The americans won the war but it also led France drown in the immensive costs of war. In order to payoff the debt, Louis XVI increased the taxation on the commoners and stopped building more infrastructures.However, the decision was flawful and absurd, where if job opportunity was not created, there was no chance that people could pay more taxes. This decision led not only taxation could not be collected, but many commoners lost their jobs as well. On the other hand, Napoleon, the emperor of France after the French revolution,
French population. The French population was divided in three sectors, clergy, noble and the commoners. People in the third Estate, commoners, had to work and pay tax, whereas the people in the first and second Estate did not. Taxation was collected from the commoners to …show more content…
Every system has its own merit. However, Louis XVI, the king of France, was too incompetent to utilize it. France was one of wealthiest and the most powerful nations in
Europe. However, the entire nation was in debt after Louis the XVI decided to involve in the
American Revolution. The motivation to involve in American Revolution was the French nationalism which the king considered the British was France’s ultimate enemy and tried to depress them in anyway as possible. However, the decision Louis the XVI made was unwise decision. The americans won the war but it also led France drown in the immensive costs of war. In order to payoff the debt, Louis XVI increased the taxation on the commoners and stopped building more infrastructures.However, the decision was flawful and absurd, where if job opportunity was not created, there was no chance that people could pay more taxes. This decision led not only taxation could not be collected, but many commoners lost their jobs as well. On the other hand, Napoleon, the emperor of France after the French revolution,