Determine whether the following effects were a result of economic or political causes of the french revolution.

the government faced high
levels of debt and went
bankrupt

the people were at the mercy
of king louis xvi, who had
unlimited authority

members of the third estate
broke away from the
estates-general

peasants and farmers couldn’t
afford to buy food and began
starving

The correct answers are the following.

Determine whether the following effects were a result of the economic or political causes of the French Revolution.

Economic causes:

>the government faced high levels of debt and went bankrupt.

>peasants and farmers couldn’t afford to buy food and began starving.

Political causes:

>the people were at the mercy of King Louis XVI, who had unlimited authority.

>members of the third estate broke away from the Estates-General.

Among other major causes of the French Revolution that started in 1789 and ended in 1799, were the inequality in France's society due to the estate's system, the heavy taxation imposed to the third state conformed by peasants and the poor,  the ideas of liberty supported by the philosophers and thinkers of the Enlightenment such as Montesquieu and Jean-Jaques Rosseau.