'What Brought to the French Revolution\r'

'Loreen Jill Ramirez Catubay 12 September 2010 HSS1C. 01 Miss. Erickson french REVOLUTION DBQ â€Å"The french Revolution. ” What pops up in your spot? Probably a plethora of ideas. Images of riots, nobles, monarchy and such. So many a(prenominal) an(prenominal) a(prenominal) mistakes and so many achievements has coiffure 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 vicissitude such as heavy taxes, extreme scantiness and the ideas of the Enlightenment. During Arthur Young’s travel through France from 1787 to 1789 he declared â€Å"There is an in scarceice imposeing on the kernel of each person must pay” (Document 1). genius Cause that brought of the French Revolution is the inequality of the levy and taxes on the among the 3 body politics. The first estate which is the automobile trunk of all stack ordained for religious duties around comm single in the Christian Church was called the â€Å"Clergy”.The Clery had no taxes on them but they, The Clergy could collect tithes or taxes from mountain 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 brotherly or political status is called the â€Å"Nobles”. The Nobles had rattling hardly a(prenominal) taxes on them trance they collected taxes and rents from peasants while the peasants worked for both(prenominal) higher(prenominal) 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 least(prenominal), This brings us to the one-third estate of peasants. Peasant s are either Middles class, peasants or urban center workers. These peck consisted of 97% of the countries population. They owned only 55% of the land. The third estate was treated very unfairly in both land and taxes. Peasants earned the least but pay the most taxes. This made them very mad about the injustice of the heavy levying as stated in the quote.During the Arthur Young’s delay in France he has observed a parcel out of things about France as a country. Arthur Young stated on September 5,1788 that, â€Å"The poor people appear very poor indeed. The children are terribly harry” (Document 1). Due to the heavy taxes on the peasants who work the long-range and hardest jobs yet earn the least they had very pocket-size money lift for themselves and their families. Arthur Young also sight that , â€Å"The price of bread has risen above the people’s ability to pay”.The people were so poor that they did not even fool comely money to buy bread fo r themselves to eat while the people in the first and second estate were eating steaks, cakes and many expansive foods. This situation of dark and inequality made the peasants individual retirement account towards the other estates and the monarchy grow. historiographer Albert Mathiez claims that leadership fell into the diaphragm class in which he stated that, â€Å"The middle class….. was mass medium 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 conceive and realized many things. Voltaire believed in freedom of speech but asleep(p) thrown in jail for making variation of a rich baron. This made the rest of the citizens to wonder about what they could say and why weren’t they allowed to spill the beans about whatever they wanted?. John Locke w as a believer of natural rights from birth and is famous for his belles-lettres on rights of life, liberty and property.His writings made people have an â€Å"oh yeah! why NOT?! ” second 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 further them for they believed that eve ryone 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.\r\n'