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6. Absolutism and the structure of the Ancien regime: When was the Ancien regime first used?

  • 1790
  • 1693
  • 1765
  • 1652

7. when did they produce a male heir?

  • 1781
  • 1786
  • 1778
  • 1756

8. What % of the third estate lived in the countryside?

  • 2/3rd
  • 80%
  • 50%
  • 76%

9. what did the peasantry have to pay?

  • only taxes
  • rents; taxes; the taille; gabelle; tithe to the church
  • conscription; taxes; gabelle; free labour

10. What did the church have control over?

  • education; hospitals; poor relief
  • education; all of frenchland; taxes
  • taxes; towns; countryside
  • Everything from the other 3 answers

11. which of the following were the main problems of the government?

  • the king's decisions and attempts to creat one system; splitting the country into 36 generalites; the three estates
  • thw wide variation in laws and customs across france; ministers and court factions working against each other; no single representative body; royal legislation to be ratidied by 1 of 13 regional parlements.
  • the overall direction of government policy; laws; ministers; political clubs

12. What % of the population was the second estate/nobility:

  • less than 1%
  • 2.3%
  • 1/4%
  • 1.2%

13. what were the 3rd estate dependant on?

  • government issues
  • price of bread
  • their children
  • monarchy

14. when did Louis succeed his father

  • 1609
  • 1798
  • 1774
  • 1756

15. when did he marry Marie-Antoinette?

  • 1769
  • 1770
  • 1775
  • 1782

16. what were the key weaknesses of absolutism and the structure of the Ancien Regime?

  • problems of government and taxation; couldn't be reformed; tensions in society grew
  • taxation; church wanting more money; the government being in control
  • the king; the moarchy; paris government

17. how many generalites/administrative areas was France split into?

  • 45
  • 15
  • 36
  • 3

18. what were the nobility exempt from?

  • annual grant; paying towards church income
  • newer taxes linked to income, avoided paying every tax just like the 1st estate
  • heaviest tax, the tailles (land tax); the corvees royales (labour service on the roads); military conscription
  • paying rents and taxes; paying the gabelle (salt tax);

19. when did the royal couple have their first child?

  • 1786
  • 1778
  • 1790
  • 1781

20. what were the priveliges of the 1st estate?

  • made voluntary annual grant
  • all the other 3 answers
  • paid no taxes
  • 16 million livres, 5% of total church income