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Causes and Effects of the French Revolution

Short Term Cause

  • War debt. France has been in a lot of wars, including one against america .

  • The estates General. Louis XVI convened an old institution in which representatives of all three estates would gather and try to make decisions about the future of the country, but nobody was really sure how it was supposed to work.

  • In a tennis court representatives gathered and took an oath to not leave Versallies until Freance had a Constitution. 

Long Term Cause

  • The wide social and economic gap between the third estate and the first and second estates.

  • The unfairness of the tax system.

  • Frustrated ambitions of the growing middle class to receive social advancementh.

  • The influence of the ideas of the Enlightenment (fair government, equality, civil rights)

  • Long standing financial crisis in France.

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