Do Now: What defines a person

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Do NowWhat defines a persons class? What makes
someone a part of the lower class, middle class
and upper class? Do you think that those
distinctions exist today?

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1789 OLD REGIME DIVIDED POPULATION INTO 3
ESTATES
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1st Estate clergy Church had power. 10 of
land No taxes. What good things did they do
for society?
Would they have supported the Enlightenment? Why?
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2nd Estate Noble Given top jobs government,
court, church army. No taxes.
Would they have supported the Enlightenment? Why?
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3rd Estate Bourgeoisie Middle Class Rural
Peasants. Estate prone to crime. High
unemployment poor.
Would they have supported the Enlightenment? Why?
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Enlightenment led to people questioning the
inequalities in society.
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Free Write

• Do you think a group of people should be allowed
  to start a revolution simply because they want to
  improve their life? Why or why not, explain.
• Think about everything a revolution entails..

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Do Now

• Take notes today on the back of the pyramid page.
• In what ways was the third estate resentful to
  the other two estates?
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Causes of the French Rev.

• Enlightenment
• Liberty
• Equality
• Reason
• Philosophers- group of intellectuals criticizes
  the government
• Locke
• Hobbes
• Montesquieu
• Voltaire

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Causes cont.

• Harvest failures
• 1787-1788
• Food shortage (which classes)
• Higher prices (which classes couldnt pay)
• Business failed
• Unemployment increased in cities

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Causes cont.

• Economy
• Economy was failing
• War debts (American Revolution)
• Poorly distributed tax burden
• No central bank
• Government makes an effort
• Government tries to push down dissidents
• Censorship becomes extreme

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Estate System
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King Queen create problems

• Marie spent a lot of money beyond the amount that
  the country could possibly pay for.
• Abuse of power
• Let them eat cake

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Spark

• Estate general King Louis XVI 1788
• Fiscal (economic) crisis
• First estate 100,000
• Second estate 400,000
• Third Estate 24.5 million
• Why were so many people from the third estate
  nominated?

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• Delegates of 3rd estate insist on reform in May
  1789.

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Delegates from 3rd estate create national
assembly to write a constitution. What might be
proposed during the discussion of the
constitution?

• How is the 1st Estate going to respond to the
  actions of the 3rd Estate?

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June 17th 1789- Delegates began calling
themselves the General Assembly.

• June 20th 1789- doors to the meeting area for the
  general assembly were locked delegates had to
  relocate to an empty tennis court.

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Tennis Court Oathnever to separate, and to meet
wherever circumstances demand.The delegates
pledged to continue to meet until a constitution
had been written, despite the royal
prohibition.King was forced to accept it.
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Bastille

• Supplies were needed gun powder.
• Bastille was a guarded prison.
• If the 3rd estate could break into the Bastille,
  steal supplies and free prisoners they could
  easily continue their rampage throughout Paris.

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Marquis de Launay- head of Bastille

• 20,000 gun powder to go away.
• Lowers draw bridge in defeat, he and his men are
  taken hostage.
• Dragged through the streets of Paris, most
  beheaded.
• July 14, 1789

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• King Louis XVI, who was residing at Versailles,
  was reported to have asked an informer "Is this
  a revolt?" and La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt said,
  "No, Sire, it is a revolution."