Ironically, the French Revolution started for the similar causes, as current US citizens are attempting rectify similar conditions.
"Although scholarly debate continues about the exact causes of the Revolution, the following reasons are commonly adduced: (1) the
bourgeoisie resented its exclusion from political power and positions of honour; (2) the
peasants were acutely aware of their situation and were
less and less willing to support the anachronistic and burdensome feudal system; (3) the philosophes had been read more widely in France than anywhere else; (4)
French participation in the American Revolution had driven the government to the brink of bankruptcy; (5) France was the most populous country in Europe, and crop failures in much of the country in 1788, coming on top of a long period of economic difficulties,
compounded existing restlessness; and (6) t
he French monarchy, no longer seen as divinely ordained, was unable to adapt to the political and societal pressures that were being exerted on it."
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