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ᴄᴀᴜꜱᴇꜱ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ꜰʀᴇɴᴄʜ ʀᴇᴠᴏʟᴜᴛɪᴏɴ fr - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Unprivileged people
        
        Paid taxes and was treated badly
        
        Social inequality
    - - Privileged people
        
        did not pay taxes and was treated well
  - - - National Assembly
        
        Tennis Court Oath
        
        The National Assembly pledged not to adjourn until constitution for France
        
        A resentment of noble privilege and dominance in public life by the ambitious professional classes
        
        Formed municipal government
        
        The commoners finally presented their credentials not as delegates of the Third Estate, but as "representatives of the nation."
  - - - very divided between the high-clergy, whose members were coming from the nobility and the low-clergy, whose monetary circumstance and ordinary occupation made them feel close to the commoners.
- - - - promoted society based on reasons instead of traditions
        
        idea of natural rights and equality for all citizens
  - - - The National Assembly in France used the American Declaration of Independence as a model when drafting the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the citizen in 1789
    - - The French Revolution occurred around the same time, This revolution itself and the wars increased political awareness by stimulating intellectual debate
  - - - belief that people should have political and individual freedom
    - - ideology of overseeing a country as a republic with an accentuation on freedom and the civic ethicalness practiced by citizens
  - - - Most of these philosophes were concerned with two issues: how to understand and improve government and how to create a society based on reason, logic and merit.
- - - - Growing government debts
        
        Debt from fight for the Colony of Canada
        
        Debt from helping the American Revolution
    - - Madame Deficit- Marie Antoinette
  - - - skyrocketing bread prices
- - - - Power is given by God
      - No one can question God
      - God put some people in positions of power
      - No one can question someone put in power by God
      - God put the world in motion
      - Questioning the monarchy was blasphemy because it meant questioning God