Causes of the Reformation

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Quick summary: People who have not been employed would have grown more than upset that the failure of reforms kept on going. They had no money, and the government failed repeatedly to make life easier for them. Not to mention there was a famine going around and people were starving, and every harvest brought nothing but depressing amounts of food. So, what happens when an oppressed group gets fed up with how they are treated? They revolt.

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Political (Kailey)

Intellectual (Ngun C.)

Unemployment = not being able to feed themselves and their family could cause strain on mental health and physical health

Economical (Zoey)

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**Marie Antoinette

she helped provoke the popular unrest that led to the French Rev. she also provoked to the overthrow of the monarchy in August 1792 (Biography.com Editors, Marie Antoinette Biography).

Failing reforms= When you are given hope for a change and it fails, not only once, but repeatedly. When people are given hope only for it to crash and burn, it could leave people with a bitter taste in their mouth.

THE ENLIGHTMENT

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Bread Prices-In the 18th century a man would typically spend half their days pay on bread, but after 2 years of failed crop a man would spend 88% of his days salary on bread. Bread was considered necessary to keep the people from rioting.

Social (Ace)

Famine= People are starving and with the prices of bread going up, instead of using half of your salary to buy bread. You'd have to spend your WHOLE SALARY to feed yourself. Or just to feed your family, but who knows how long the bread would last.

Poor harvest= Having poor harvest when there's already so much bad going on with your life is just the cherry on top of an ice-cream cone made of dung. Especially when you hear that there's a rumor going around about the nobles plotting this. You've lived under the Kings rule you whole life only to hear that they're plotting your demise. That would've been anyone's cracking point

JOHN LOCKE
John Locke believed in constitutionalism. He believed all people were born equal and that the government should protect people's rights.
(https://lo.rcsd.ca/pluginfile.php/16661/mod_lesson/page_contents/5961/6.0%20TheEnlightenment.pdf?time=1584041912434, 'John Locke (1632-1704)', SLIDE 14)

THOMAS HOBBES
Thomas Hobbes believed in absolutism. He believed that people needed government to impose order as people were selfish and greedy.
(https://lo.rcsd.ca/pluginfile.php/16661/mod_lesson/page_contents/5961/6.0%20TheEnlightenment.pdf?time=1584041912434, 'New Views on Government', SLIDE 9)

With the contrasting ideas, the people favored Locke's idea as it included them, enlightening them that there is a chance to have their voices heard to which they took, causing the French Revolution and the main catalyst being Locke's idea. The people did not want to be stepped on anymore and took matters into their own hands, and finally coming out victorious.

Unequal Taxation- The way taxes were done was deemed unfair and inefficient, France had one of the highest taxing countries in Europe.The people that had to pay taxes were the ones least likely to be able to pay tax, while the second and first estates (priveledged people) had to pay little to nothing for tax.

THE BASTILLE

The Bastille was a symbol of oppression to the people as it represented the Crown and the medieval way of life.

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