French Revolution Dbq

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Sydney Rhoads
History 2: T/TH 11-12:15
Instructor:
2/20/16
Unit #2 Essay Question #1
The people of France overthrew the king of France Louis XVI and that is why the French had won the American Revolution. “The French Revolution had reached its pinnacle of violence, the French Revolution had been a point in time where you could re-create everything in a society, through political action. French Revolution had been an important event that had occurred in Western history. It had been an important revolution that upset the most. It had gotten rid of the Catholic church, Christianity, nobility, and even the king. There had been so many things that the French Revolution had gotten rid of. The revolution would bring bread to the poor and …show more content…

The middle class during this time had started to become wealthy by; trade, manufacturing, banking, and contracting. The lower class during this time had consisted of people who were tradesmen, laborers, and government officials. Louis during this time had believed that he had ruled by the will of god and by the divine rights of the king. The courts during this time had also been in debt and it had led to Louis to reinstate parliament. The parliaments that Louis had set up were made up of aristocrats. What the parliaments had did was ask Louis to return to France rule to the estates general, and eventually Louis had given in.” “The estates were made up of three different estates; The first estate had consisted of the clergy and had about 130,000 people. The church had owned about ten percent of the land and clergy had been radically divided” (Spielvogel page. 567-568). “The second estate had consisted of the nobility, and had composed of no more than 350,000 people who had owned about 25 to 30 percent of the land. The nobility during this time had played an important role in French society and had held on to …show more content…

The nobles had intended to marry within their own ranks, and making the nobility a closed group” (Spielvogel page 568). The third estate during this time had included people who had been the commoners of society, and they had been the overwhelming majority of the French population. They had been divided by their occupations, level of education, and wealth. The peasants in the third estate had made up 75-80 percent of the total population, owning also about 35 to 40 percent of the land. “The third estate did not just include the commoners of society, but had also included skilled artisans, shopkeepers, and other wage earners in the cities. The third estate had also a struggle for survival and had led them to play an important role in the revolution, especially in the city of Paris” (Spielvogel page 568-569). “Louis had eventually established the estates general and had soon became disappointed, the clergy and the aristocracy can easily vote out the third estate, two to one which they had done repeatedly. The first estate had joined the third estate and when they had joined together the third estate had realized that it had been the only

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