1. Prep is due – put it in the box!

3. Different Types of Causes:
Short Term
Long Term
Trigger
Catalyst
Underlying
Economic
Social
Political
Religious
Is the cause important on its own, or does it rely on another source to have an effect?

4. Absolute Monarchy
Louis XVI became King of France in He was a kind, family man, who married Marie Antoinette, an Austrian Princess.
Louis had very few of the qualities that would have him made a good king.
But he had become king at a time when France was becoming increasingly unstable.
*Louis was an autocrat. That meant that he could do exactly as he liked.
*At his coronation, Louis XVI had sworn an oath to God, not to his subjects.
*Louis simply appointed ministers and let them get on with running the country. When conditions became too bad for people to put up with, there were riots or even rebellions.

5. Ancien Regime (Estates System)

6. Taxation

7. Enlightenment

8. American Revolution

9. Political Crisis

10. Post it note – what was the most important cause of the Revolution?

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