What Brought to the French Revolution

Loreen Jill Ramirez Catubay 12 September 2010 HSS1C. 01 Miss. Erickson french REVOLUTION DBQ The French Revolution. What pops up in your head? Probably a plethora of ideas. Images of riots, nobles, monarchy and such. So numerous mistakes and so numerous achievements has develop out of the French Revolution. Many failed policies, laws and many inspirational and influential ideas has come of the French Revolution. The important causes of the French Revolution has changed France.The French Revolution had many causes which lead to the outbreak of the regeneration such as heavy taxes, extreme poverty and the ideas of the Enlightenment. During Arthur Youngs travel through France from 1787 to 1789 he stated There is an in meetice levying on the amount of each person must pay (Document 1). superstar Cause that brought of the French Revolution is the inequality of the levy and taxes on the among the 3 estates. The first estate which is the be of all people ordained for religious dutie s most comm still in the Christian Church was called the Clergy.The Clery had no taxes on them but they, The Clergy could collect tithes or taxes from people who are living on churches land. The Clergy owned 10% of the countries land but shockingly the Clergy consist of 1% of the countries population. The second estate which is known as belong to a hereditary class with high social or political status is called the Nobles. The Nobles had very a few(prenominal) taxes on them sequence they collected taxes and rents from peasants while the peasants worked for both high classes, the first estates and the second estate.The second estate, Nobles consisted of only 2% of the population but owned 35% of the countries land. Last but not to the lowest degree, This brings us to the trinity estate of peasants. Peasants are either Middles class, peasants or city workers. These people consisted of 97% of the countries population. They owned only 55% of the land. The third estate was treated v ery unfairly in both land and taxes. Peasants earned the least but paid the most taxes. This made them very mad about the injustice of the heavy levying as stated in the quote.During the Arthur Youngs stay in France he has observed a chew of things about France as a country. Arthur Young stated on September 5,1788 that, The poor people pee-pee the appearance _or_ semblance very poor indeed. The children are terribly ragged (Document 1). Due to the heavy taxes on the peasants who work the monthlong and hardest jobs yet earn the least they had very little money lift for themselves and their families. Arthur Young also notice that , The price of bread has risen above the peoples ability to pay.The people were so poor that they did not even have enough money to buy bread for themselves to eat while the people in the first and second estate were eating steaks, cakes and many high-flown foods. This situation of shabbiness and inequality made the peasants passion towards the other e states and the monarchy grow. Historian Albert Mathiez claims that leadership fell into the middle class in which he stated that, The middle class.. was sensitive to their inferior legal position. The Revolution came from them-the middle class.They were just beginning to learn to read (Document 4). Through this the middle class gained knowledge and ideas of the Enlightenment. They became philosophers. They started to believe and realized many things. Voltaire believed in freedom of speech but gone thrown in jail for making mutant of a rich baron. This made the rest of the citizens to wonder about what they could say and why werent they allowed to gibber about whatever they wanted?. John Locke was a believer of natural rights from birth and is famous for his writings on rights of life, liberty and property.His writings made people have an oh yeah why NOT? here and now and questioned their rights and the other estates rights deciding that this was unfair and unjust. These people started to believe and agree with what these philosophers thought than what the king or the clergy thought. The 3 situations that helped caused the revolution. Heavy taxes were unjust as the peasants who earned the least, paid the most taxes while the other estates lived a luxurious life. The extreme famine which of left the peasants stomach digesting in nothing but anger towards the onarchy while the higher estates had tea parties and buffets and ideas of the Enlightenment which opened the eyes of many others about how much unfairness, inequality and injustice they have been treated with and that this was not tolerable as they philosophers encouraged them for they believed that everyone should have rights, liberty and freedom. The citizens years of suffering, inequality, injustice, unfairness and anger were the causes that had lead to the French Revolution.