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LONG TERM CAUSES - Coggle Diagram
LONG TERM CAUSES
IDEOLOGICAL
Spread liberty and equality
Weakened King and Church using reason.
King violated life, liberty, property.
Rousseau backed self-rule; Montesquieu wanted divided powers.
Proved overthrowing kings works.
ECONOMIC
State spent more than it earned.
Funding America bankrupted France.
Prices grew 45%, wages only 22%
High taxes/low wages caused starvation.
SOCIAL
Divided into three unfair estates.
Nobility/Clergy paid no taxes.
Poor commoners paid all taxes
POLITICAL
King held unlimited power.
Louis XVI used arbitrary arrests and wasted money.
Wealthy commoners had zero power.