Ap Euro Chapter 19

Unlike the 3rd estate, the 1st and 2nd estate were granted many privileges such as not having to pay taxes and earning more rights than the 3rd estate. Soon enough, the 3rd estate got tired of having to suffer with all of the issues that the nobility had place onto them. So they decided to revolt against the king, the clergy, and the rest of the nobility.

There are very few members in the first and second estates, yet they owned the most land, while the third estate made up most of the population, yet owned very little land. “First: Clergy - 1% of the people owned 10% of the land. Second Estate: Nobles - 2% of the people owned 35% of the land. Third Estate - Middle class, peasants, city workers 97% of the people owned 55% of the land.” (Document 2) There were high prices, high taxes, and people were listening to enlightenment ideas. Louis XVI decided to tax the Second Estate. They called a meeting of the Estates-General - an assembly of representatives from all three estates. (ROI) In addition, as a political cause, the third estate had no privileges or say in the government,while both the clergy and nobles did. As mentioned before, the inequality of taxes proved another gap in the social classes. “The Revolution had been accomplished in the minds of men long before it was translated into fact.... The middle class...was sensitive to their inferior legal position. The Revolution came from them-the middle class. The working classes were incapable of starting or controlling the Revolution. They were just beginning to learn to read.” (Document 4) Estates- General was the first such meeting in 175 years. Met on May 5th,1789 in Versailles. In the Estate- General each estate had one vote. (ROI)

Unlike upper class they did not necessarily inherit their money but earned it off their own hard work. They could afford their own town house and servants to run the household. Over time these class of people grew more influential and eventually gained the right to vote in 1832. They were below the aristocracy but above the workers.

Both countries also had a similar hierarchy. For example, the French First Estate was made up of members of the Church, just like Parliament's House of Lords. The French Second Estate was made up of nobles, and the House of Commons was made up of elected men. The Third Estate was made up of all of the other citizens, who paid the most in taxes, without power in government. The American colonists paid the most in taxes, without power in government, showing similar hierarchies among the two rebellious

     To be in the highest class, one had to be born into it. This four percent of the population was known as the Noble class. The class was broken into two estates: the first estate and the second estate. They were the hierarchy of the church and well respected church officials. The second estate made up the other three percent and included the Royal family and other wealthy families that had inherited most of their income (Lough 98-105). Although these were the richest people in the country, they were

There were three estates in the medieval European times, the first estate, the second estate, and the third estate. The first estate contained of church leaders and kings, basically people with a high status. The second estate contained of the knights, the people who protected the land under the kings and church leaders. Below all was the third estate which contained of the peasants, the lowest working class. This is similar to modern days but the first estate would be CEOs and political leaders, the second estate would be the average working middle class, and the third estate would be the poor people with low jobs.

The first estate, for the people of the highest position in France belonged to the clergy; this group contained the members of the religious rules such as Bishops, Monks and Nuns. However, the people of this estate were not popular among many people of especially the third estate. This was mainly because of the power

They also had three estates. And the problem with these estates was that the 2 main estates agreed with each

Before the French Revolution, there were three estates, or classes: the nobility, the clergy and the commoners. The nobility and the clergy had many more privileges than the third estate and that is what caused the French Revolution. The Third estate was composed of the peasants, the workers and the bourgeoisie; unlike the other segments of the Third Estate, the bourgeoisie was able to communicate its grievances to the public during the period after the French Revolution: 1789-1799.

The first group of the Old Regime system was the first estate. This group was made

The French Revolution was a period of time from 1789 to 1799 in France where there was political instability. It officially began on the 14th of July, 1789, when the Bastille, which was a symbol of the King’s harsh policies, was stormed. The King, Louis XVI, the Queen, Marie-Antoinette and about 40,000 people were all brutally murdered. But there was also a positive side, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen was formally adopted on August 1789 and feudalism was abolished. This essay will address the issues of the three estates system, food shortages and the fiscal crisis. It will also be argued that the most significant cause of the French Revolution was the social inequality that stemmed from the three estates system.

land. The National Assembly was the name they used when the third estate broke away

The second estate was mainly composed of nobility. They too were exempt from paying taxes. This left the tax burden upon the third estate. The third estate consisted of some merchants and entrepreneurs; however, the majority were peasants. Corruption of the estates was causing much frustration among the common people who composed 70 percent of the population.

The first estate which is Ruling families .the second estate is government. And the third estate are the common people.

The second estate is nobles. “Nobles were local aristocrats that had hereditary privileges ”(Traditional European Social Order 3 ) , which in this case means the pass on of privileges. This is realistic because it allows people to hand over their success and privileges it