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Causes of the French Revolution, The three Estates - Coggle Diagram
Causes of the French Revolution
Political
Unfaithfulness
King Louis XVI hungriness for more power
Absolutism
Unjust System
The old regime'
Land ownership
Whomever had the most land is the richest but, commoners who also had been given land to grow their crops on pay larger tax.
they pay for growing the crops on the land given to them
with their small income and tax, there's hardly any money left for them to buy bread.
Starvation that led to The Peasant Revolt. The Great Fear
Meeting of the Estates - General to find a solution to bankruptcy the problem.
The Third Estate formed The National Assembly.
Economical
Tax
Only third class pay tax
harvest, land, church goods, road work, income and poll.
Starvation for the peasants.
Peasant Revolution.
The country's lack of change
Church
No one can question the church-God.
question the monarchy, means questioning the church too.
cannot question who God put in power over the people.
King
approach to the poor.
ignored his people's needs
control
justice
military
law
bankruptcy
King
demands tax
spends it however he likes
leads to starvation for the Third Estate and shortage of bread while the upper class eat expensive food in Versailles.
The women got upset and went to the nobles and wanted revolted. On their way, they stole a cannon and proceeded to threaten the nobles when they were told that the king was out hunting.
they found an unlocked door and went straight to the queen's chamber but she escaped and one of the commoners killed a different girl, put her head on a spike and paraded it.
The had no choice but to "agree" with the commoners and let them go home with 50 wagons full of stolen flour.
The October Days
debt
Versailles palace
Unemployment of commoners
Intellectual
Influence of enlightenment philosophes
Philosophers- people with high intellectuals questioned the big spending of the monarchy to unnecessary things and wanted to change the government.
The third estate heard this and joined to debate about the wasteful spending of the government using their taxes.
The national assembly (Third estate that is against the monarchy )
The voice of the Third Estates gave them courage to revolution against the monarchy
The successful revolution in France
Influenced other revolutions
England's glorious revolution 1775-1783
Worldwide Impact
Social
Royal Ceremonies
King
Ceremonies for everything they do in their daily lives.
Queen
royal balls, traditions and never- ending dinner parties.
Lavish spending.
King
Expensive food and leisurely things.
Queen
300 dresses every year.
Worst famine in memory.
The three Estates
Privileged and Unprivileged
Privileged
First Estate (Priests, abbots, bishops, monks and nuns)
Pay no land taxes. Exempted from everything
Second Estate (nobles)
Collect their fortune from the peasants
Exempted
Unprivileged
Third Estate (commoners)
Pay taxes, no exceptions, unpaid labor and mistreated