Many farms were auctioned off when farmers
a. began to irrigate crops.
b. could not pay their mortgages.
c. combined households to save money.
d. destroyed crops to protest low prices.
Your answer: b. could not pay their mortgages.
“Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness”
What are you trying to ask?
Answer: similarly to Lafayette or Mirabeau, Louis XVI believed in moderate way of doing this revolution. Neither Lafayette nor Mirabeau were republicans. Louis XVI was not republican. In contrast to Mirabeau or Lafayette Louis XVI was forced to call for General States (1789) because of problems with state budget (minister of finances Jacques Necker made him to make his made about it, there was no other way). Louis XVI was no republican
Explanation: Louis XVI has no free will already in 1789. He was also under the influence of much more radical right: 1) his wife Marie Antoinette (from Austrian dynasty of Habsburg), 2) his brothers : Louis de Provence, Charles d´Artois, 3) emigration (aristocracy that already during 1789, 1790 escaped to Rhineland, especially to Koblenz). When he tried to escape, he was caught with all his family in Varennes, and then executed (January 1793).
