WorksheetsL6_U3_AOS1_Financial and Political Crisis
Total questions: 5
Worksheet time: 3mins
Identify which of these factors was NOT a reason for France's debt.
Inefficient tax system
Interest on loans
Royal wastefulness
Efficient tax system
4 wars
Identify which of these words is a synonym for insignificant.
Essential
Inconsequential
Fundamental
Substantial
Crucial
State which of these flow charts represents the correct chronology (chain reaction of causes) in pre-revolutionary France.
Political - Fiscal - Financial
Legal - Fiscal - Political
Fiscal - Social - Political
Financial - Fiscal - Legal
Financial - Fiscal - Political
Identify which of these causes are Long Term causes (select all correct answers).
Feudalism
Enlightenment
Convocation of Estates General
Political, Economic, Social inequality.
Storming of the Bastille
Identify which of these statements are true (select all correct answers).
France's finances became an issue of public discussion.
Louis XVI was against any reform.
Turgot warned Louis XVI that joining the American War of Independence was going 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).
Necker's Compte Rendu (1781) was a true reflection of France's financial situation.
