american/french revolution
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- Society under the old region
- The three Estates.
- France Is Bankrupt
- -FIrst estate high ranking officals of the church privilaged class-Second estate nobles , privilaged class-Third estate , everyone else ( commoners) first peasant i the countryside to wealthy bourgeoisie merchants in the cities , Unprivilaged class
- Influence of the Enlightments
- 1st. high ranking church officals. up to a populatio of 130,000. had more than 5 privlages , as in example , Collected the tithe,Censoship of the press,Control of Education,Owned20$ of the land2nd.Nobles, up to 110,00 people .considerd taxes as in feudal dues, payed NO taxes. Supported the old monarchy and old Regime3rd. population of 25,000,000 , they had NO PRIVILAGES had to oay all the taxes
- Frances new government
- 1. King Louis (XVI) lavish money on himself and palaces like Versailles1 . Queen Marie Antoinette spent incredible amount of money on dresses and fashion2. Government found its funds depleted as a results of paying for wars > french and Indian war ( 7 years of war )3.Deficit Spending a government spending more money than ut takes in from tax revenues
- Enlightment ideas influence the third estate , equality of all people, Overthrowing a bad government ( locke )
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