1. AS History Matters www.pastmatters.org AS History Matters www.pastmatters.org EconomicSocialPoliticalIntellectual Absolute Monarchy Louis XVI was a Poor decision maker Growth of new ideas i.e. all born equal The EnlightenmentInfluence of America 3 rd Estate’s Tax burden The weather Attempts to Tax nobles Growing deficit Increasing poverty Growing burden of feudal dues Growth of industry And middle class

2. AS History Matters www.pastmatters.org AS History Matters www.pastmatters.org Louis XVI was a poor decision maker & the Enlightenment The Weather

3. AS History Matters www.pastmatters.org AS History Matters www.pastmatters.org Wednesday, 21 October 2015 What happened in the years 1774-1789? KI1: Causes of the French Revolution.

4. AS History Matters www.pastmatters.org AS History Matters www.pastmatters.org Wednesday, 21 October 2015 Session Aims Causes of the French revolution. Explain the events of the early Revolutionary period

5. AS History Matters www.pastmatters.org AS History Matters www.pastmatters.org Questions on Matthews pp12-24 1.What is the earliest key cause in the lead up to the Revolution? 2.How did the Louis XV’s reign end? 3.Why is it a surprise that Necker was so popular? 4.How did Necker manage to keep the cash flowing in the late 1770s? Why was this so controversial? 5.When did the Assembly of the Notables gather, and for what purpose was is assembled? 6.What was the Eden treaty? 7.How and why did the Paris Parlement become the nation’s defender and protector? 8.What were the cahier de doleances and what is their importance? 9.Why was the Bastille attacked? 10.What was the status of the Ancien Regime by the summer of 1789?

6. AS History Matters www.pastmatters.org AS History Matters www.pastmatters.org Using the five boxes of Short Term causes on p19 – arrange them on this continuum. Less important Most important

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9. AS History Matters www.pastmatters.org AS History Matters www.pastmatters.org Economic – Government Debt

10. AS History Matters www.pastmatters.org AS History Matters www.pastmatters.org Economic – Poor Harvests