French Rev AOS1 Lesson 8

Identify which of these factors was NOT a reason for France's debt.

• Royal wastefulness

• 4 wars

• Efficient tax system

• Inefficient tax system

• Interest on loans

Identify which of these words is a synonym for insignificant.

• Crucial

• Essential

• Inconsequential

• Fundamental

• Substantial

State which of these flow charts represents the correct chronology (chain reaction of causes) in pre-revolutionary France.

• Financial - Fiscal - Legal

• Legal - Fiscal - Political

• Fiscal - Social - Poltiical

• Financial - Fiscal - Political

• Political - Fiscal - Financial

Identify which of these causes are Long Term causes (select all correct answers).

• Feudalism

• Enlightenment

• Convocation of Estates General

• Storming of the Bastille

• Political, Economic, Social inequality.

Identify which of these statements are true (select all correct answers).

• Necker's Compte Rendu (1781) was a true reflection of France's financial situation.

• Turgot warned Louis XVI that joining the American War of Independence was gong to lead to bankruptcy.

• Calonne realised that France was in 112 million livres of debt and proposed a uniform land tax (taxing nobles and clergy)

• France's finances became an issue of public discussion.

• Louis XVI was against any reform.