Louis XVI and France Was Unable to Reform the Tax

question 35

Multiple Choice

Louis XVI and France was unable to reform the tax system because

• A)the king did not want to lose the income he received from selling offices.
• B)farmers resisted any tax reform because they were making large profits from overseas sales.
• C)appointed ministers were corrupt.
• D)high harvests would increase taxes for both the small farmer as well as the large land owner.
• E)the tax system was too complex to tackle change.

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Definitions:

Proactive Interference

A phenomenon where older memories interfere with the retrieval of newer memories.

Encoding Failure

The inability to recall specific information because it was not effectively encoded into long-term memory.

Storage Decay

The process of losing information from memory over time due to the lack of use or retrieval of the information.

Interference-induced Forgetting

A phenomenon where previously learned information is lost or harder to recall due to interference from new information.