Financial Ministers Week 6 0.0 / 5 ? HistoryFrench RevolutionA2/A-levelAQA Created by: Scanli12Created on: 04-12-17 12:35 What did Turgot believe in? freeing agriculture from the restrictions of tax 1 of 19 What did Turgot try to impose? financial and economic reforms 2 of 19 What did Turgot want with grain tax? Attempted to impose free trade in grain (year of bad harvest) 3 of 19 What did Turgot want with land tax? Wanted a single tax on land 4 of 19 Why did the Paris Parlement refuse to register him? Too Radical 5 of 19 When was he dismissed? 1776 6 of 19 When did Necker publish the royal accounts? 1781 7 of 19 What did Necker make the royal accounts seem like? They were in surplus 8 of 19 What did making the royal accounts appear to be in surplus do for Necker? Able to gain more loans because of this and also made him more popular with 3rd estate 9 of 19 What was the debt in 1763? 50 million livres 10 of 19 What was the debt in 1786? 112 million livres 11 of 19 Poor harvests & rising population led to an increase in what? prices 12 of 19 Why did Necker resign? No way to solve the issues 13 of 19 When did Necker resign? 1781 14 of 19 What did Calonne seek? More loans 15 of 19 When did Parlement refuse Calonne any more loans? 1786 16 of 19 What did Calonne inform the King? that state faced financial collapse and debt of over 100 million livres 17 of 19 What tax did Calonne change and to what? Removed tax of the twentieth and replaced it with a single land tax paid by all 18 of 19 What did he propose the removal of? internal customs barriers 19 of 19
To what extent was involvement in war the most important reason for the worsening finances of France in the years 1743 to 1787? 0.0 / 5
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