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info@snapandsolve.comSeeing the American colonies successfully rebel against a powerful monarch and establish a democratic government inspired the French people—and many French soldiers who fought in America—to demand similar freedoms and rights.
Widespread crop failures and severe grain shortages led to skyrocketing bread prices, leaving starving and desperate citizens with nothing to lose, which fueled widespread riots and anger toward the government.
Thinkers like Locke, Rousseau, and Voltaire promoted new ideas about liberty, equality, natural rights, and government by the people’s consent, making the French question the absolute power of the king and the unfair class system.
King Louis XVI held absolute, unchecked power, refusing to listen to the grievances of ordinary citizens or reform the archaic political system, which frustrated people who wanted a voice in their government.
The unjust tax structure forced the impoverished Third Estate to pay massive taxes while the wealthy First and Second Estates (clergy and nobility) paid little to nothing, creating deep financial hardship and bitter resentment.
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