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6. what did Louis try to follow to improve royal finances?

  • stop giving Marie-Antoinette so much money
  • less strict taxations
  • a policy of return
  • a better government and laws that were set

7. what did tax farming reduce?

  • poverty
  • Crown's income
  • taxation
  • how much Farmer Generals had to pay

8. what was the vingtieme?

  • tax payable by everyone (except clergy- paid don gratuit); 2nd estate's payements varied depending on rank, status, occupation and property; contained 22 different tax classes
  • tax of 5% of earnings from land, property, commerce, industry and official offices - All but clergy have to pay
  • tax on property and income of the third- estate; consisted of Taille personnelle and taille reelle

9. how much did the Seven Years' war (1756-63) cost?

  • 1.8 billion livres
  • 2.3 million livres
  • 1 billion livres
  • 36 thousand livres

10. why was tax collection chaotic and incomplete?

  • poverty
  • tax farming
  • regional differences
  • crown's income

11. who grew rich from slave trade and the import of cotton, indigo, coffee and sugar?

  • slaves
  • the monarche
  • merchants
  • nobles

12. when did France improve its agricultural techniques, such as crop rotation and the use of fertilisers?

  • 1762
  • 1770's
  • 1778
  • 1780's

13. where did most of the royal income come from?

  • war
  • selling goods to other countries
  • taxation
  • other countries

14. how much did the war of Austrian succession (1740-48) cost?

  • 1 billion livres
  • 200 million livres
  • 950 million livres
  • 1.8 billion livres

15. how many different units of measure were there in france before 1789?

  • 3500
  • 25,000
  • 2
  • 965,000

16. what year was Louis' biggest problem money?

  • 1769
  • 1778
  • 1774
  • 1782

17. what was the Capitation?

  • tax on property and income of the third- estate; consisted of Taille personnelle and taille reelle
  • tax payable by everyone (except clergy- paid don gratuit); 2nd estate's payements varied depending on rank, status, occupation and property; contained 22 different tax classes
  • tax of 5% of earnings from land, property, commerce, industry and official offices - All but clergy have to pay

18. who was the minister responsible for royal finances?

  • Controller - General
  • Noblesse de court
  • the king himself

19. when was the poor harvests and bed wwinters which depressed peasants incomes?

  • 1792-1798
  • 1762-1773
  • 1785-1789
  • 1758

20. why was the monarchy heavily in dept?

  • Government stealing money
  • cost of foreign war
  • spent all of the money in Salons
  • Marie-Antoinettes spending