Revolutionary Ideas
The ruling system in French.
What was the absolute monarchy?
Financiers.
Who collected taxes in France?
It consisted of the clergy.
Who made up the first estate?
An Austrian born royal who was known for her excessive spending and lavish lifestyle.
Who was Marie Antoinette?
The Third Estate was made to contribute the most tax despite their relatively low economic status in most cases.
Who paid majority of the taxes in the Old regime?
The Age of Reason.
What was the Enlightenment described as?
Coffee, sugar and other tropical produce.
What were some of France's best exports from the Caribbean?
The bourgeois, the workers and the peasants.
Who was a part of the third estate?
He was a leader of the American War of Independence and pivotal in the French Revolution.
Why was Marquis Lafayette so famous?
A tax on the third estate's produce of between five and ten percent of their harvest.
What was the tithe?
The Enlightenment and Taxation without Representation.
What ideas/events led to the American revolution?
Spiritual guidance, protection for the people, charity in time of need and other services.
What did the Catholic Church provide to the people of France?
Taxes, the corvée, no representation in legal or economic decisions.
What were the grievances of the peasants?
The monarchy's veil of secrecy was exposed and the Compte rendu au Roi caused outcry in the public.
Why was Jacques Necker asked to resign?
Up to 80% of the métayers produce was forfeit in rents, taxes and dues.
Who were the poorest sharecroppers and what tax did they owe?
144 nominated members.
How many individuals were a part of the Assembly of Notables?
They did not have a central system for managing their finances.
Did France have a central treasury?
Their role had been to fight for the king and to maintain sufficient equipment and soldiers to contribute a contingent to the nation's army in a time of war.
What was the role of the second estate traditionally?
Influential pamphlet What is the Third Estate? (1789)
What was Abbé Sieyès famous for?
3-25% of their produce was paid.
What did peasants pay to their seigneurial lord?
14 were a part of the Assembly of Notables.
How many Bishops were a part of the Assembly of Notables?
The Record of Accounts for the King.
What is the translation of the Compte Rendu au Roi?
Families that traced their ancestry back centuries to some military achievement.
Who were the Noblesse de robe?
He closed the Assembly of Notables before it could cause any more damage.
What significant action did Brienne take?
It was proposed that the three vingtièmes be removed altogether, that the tax privileges traditionally held by various groups be abolished an a new direct tax be created, a 'territorial subvention.'
What tax system did Calonne propose?