1) French society around 1789 was split into three groups of people or the Three Estates. The First Estate consisted of the clergy or the leaders of the church. The Second Estate were the nobles who were highly privileged. The Third and final estate consisted of peasants, city workers, and the middle class, all of which were taxes heavily and underprivileged.…
There are many definitions to the word revolution. For the most part, it basically means that there are rapid changes in the values and myths of society as far as government, politics, social structure, and leadership. They all have a negative process that can be from wars, coups, and revolts all for one positive outcome, independence. (Handelman, 228) The question is, what are the causes of revolution and why? Such causes may include past history, the decrease in economy, and just the many challenges that third world countries face to spark the interest of a revolution.…
| a. First Estate- the estate made up of members of the clergy that made up less than 1% of the population, owned around 10% of the land and paid a 2% income tax.…
owners fixed their wages. But wages did not keep pace with the rise in prices so the gap…
The painting by Jean- Pierre Houel shows the event that starts the French Revolution, which is the Storming of the Bastille. The Bastille is a royal fortress that had been converted into a prison in Paris; the prison is used for king Louies XIV to lock up people who speak against him. On July 14, 1789 angry Parisians successfully attack the Bastille and took control of the Bastille. The Storming of Bastille inspired many other French citizens to take up against the royal king and queen. It is a defining moment in the history of France, which is consider as French citizen’s collective consciousness. This is the first time in France that French citizen have proven that as a nation they can govern themselves, without the rulers. The painting suggests that the violence of French Revolution had a great impact of the society. The deconstruction of the buildings shows that the French Revolution is breaking the peace in France. Even though the revolutionists have taken control of the Bastille however they did not success as a nation, as they did not accomplish their goal of French Revolution which is to make France a better place to live. Instead the revolutionists have breaks the peace that had once existed in France. Therefore the perspective of this source does not support French Revolution.…
The French Revolution was a social and political conflict, with different periods of violence that convulsed France and, by extension of its implications, other European nations who battled supporters and opponents of the system known as the Old Regime. It began with the self-proclamation of the Third Estate as National Assembly in 1789 and ended with the coup of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1799.…
The proof necessary to convict the enemies of the people is every kind of evidence, either material or moral or verbal or written. . . . Every citizen has the right to seize conspirators and counter-revolutionaries and to arraign them before magistrates. He is required to denounce them when he knows of them. Law of 22 Prairial Year II (June 10, 1794) Inflamed by their poverty and hatred of wealth, the SANS-CULOTTES insisted that it was the duty of the government to guarantee them the right to existence. Such a policy ran counter to the bourgeois aspirations of the National Assembly. The sans-culottes demanded that the revolutionary government immediately increase wages, fix prices, end food shortages, punish hoarders and most important, deal with the existence of counter-revolutionaries. In terms of social ideals the sans-culottes wanted laws to prevent extremes of both wealth and property. Their vision was of a nation of small shopkeepers and small farmers. They favored a democratic republic in which the voice of the common man could be heard. In this respect, their ideology falls into line with that of Thomas Paine (1737-1809), the English radical who argued that the best form of government was the one which governed least: government should guarantee basic natural rights and then lay off the citizen (on Paine, see Lecture 14). In other words, and this is important to grasp, the social and economic ideas of the sans-culottes were politicized by the Revolution itself.…
In 1789, ninety-seven percent of the population of Europe was poor, starving and treated unequally. The King of the time, King Louis XVI (16th) did not listen to the people and take good care of them; he cared about the other three percent, the nobility. Thus, the poor rebelled and created a turning point in world history.…
Q. Elucidate the role played by different social groups in the French Revolution. Which group in your estimation benefitted the most from the revolutionary decade in France?…
“The transformation of French society that followed the fall of the bastille to a Parisian crowd in 1789 changed not only France but Europe forever.”…
Many could blame Marie Antoinette for the French Revolution, because she was spent the countries money on parties, clothes, champagne and cake instead of helping the poor people of the country, but I don’t think she was why the revolutionist stood up for themselves, because there were much bigger issues going on at that time than an Austrian princess. Although she might have been one of the reasons why some joined the Revolution, I don’t think she was the one who got everyone to form the Revolution.…
The American Revolution was a conflict between the thirteen British colonies in North America. Consisted in two events: The War of Independence (1775-1783) and the formation of the government establishing the Constitution of the United States of America (1787) The War of Independence, the colonies managed their independence of Britain. Thanks to that, a new republic was established where the Governor was in the hands of the people. In 1783 Britain recognized the colonies as an independence nation. Some of the main causes of this revolution were: Intolerable Acts, Proclamation 1763 and Common Sense.…
This article is about political and social developments, and the origins and aftermath of the war. For military actions, see American Revolutionary War. For other uses, see American Revolution (disambiguation).…
agreed to summon the 'estatesgeneral' (a form of parliament, but without real power) in order to try and raise taxes.…
“Dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery” (Oxforddictionaries.com) is one out of the many definitions that define corruption. Corruption is something that takes place almost every day anywhere around the world, but nothing surpasses the level corruption that has been taking place over decades in Egypt. Corruption in Egypt has reached a point were as locals of the country define corruption “Egypt”. This crime against the county has been taking place over two decades and a half, the period of the old regime which was ex President Mubarak’s reined up and until today. It wasn’t until Mubarak’s regime that corruption has reached an all time high. In 2010, Transparency International assed the level of perceived corruption in Egypt from business people and country analysts, to have given Egypt a CPI (Corruption Perception Index) of 3.1, on scale 10 being a very clean society with almost no corruption, which in the authors opinion will never exist, and 0 being a highly corrupted country (TransparencyInternational, 2010). Corruption in Egypt is found everywhere from public and governmental sectors and illegal and negative actions that create corruption involve: health, education, unemployment, culture, media and bribery, business corruption, financial distribution issues, and many more, all the way to people’s or citizen’s mindsets. The social classes that mostly feel and witness the effects of the extreme cases of corruption in Egypt are the low class society or the poor that live under the poverty line.…