Essay About Absolute Monarch And National Assembly

History: Causes of the French Revolution
FRENCH REVOLUTION
**5 causes of the French Revolution
1. Absolute Monarch
-absolute total control from the king or queen, no one has a voice but them
2. Estate System
-social inequality
-people are broken up into 3 estates
a) clergy, cathlic church, religious people
b) nobles, land owners, people with money and power
c) everyone else (peasants, surfs) 98% very few rights
3. Economic Injustice
-tax system
-3rd paying all of the taxes so the first and the second estate can live better
4. The Enlightenment
-ideas from it influences the revolution
-bc of the natural rights or everyone new law
5. Other Revolutions
-Glorious Revolution
-where the British demanded more rights and the king had to give it to them (add)
**Three Stages of the French Revolution
1. Tennis Court Oath
– king calls a gov meeting of the estates general which 2 estates can overrule
the other one. third estate realizes to for their own government and called it
the National Assembly making itself independent. storming of the bastille.
2. Great Fear
-mobs going absolutely crazy burning houses castles manners and killing people
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