MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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Question
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____ We must ask ourselves three questions.1. What is the Third Estate? Everything2. What has it been until now in the political order? Nothing3. What does it want to be? Something-Abbé Sieyès, 1789 (adapted) Based on this passage, what did the Third Estate want?
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independence from France
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more influence in the political system
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removal of the monarchy
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freedom of religion in France
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Answer and Explanation: The Third Estate was one of three groups, or estates, of the French Estates General (composed of the clergy, the nobility, and the commoners); it was the group of deputies that represented the commoners in France.
Detailed explanation-2: -Therefore, what is the Third Estate? Everything; but an everything shackled and oppressed. What would it be without the privileged order? Everything, but an everything free and flourishing.
Detailed explanation-3: -Abbe Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes wrote the influential pamphlet “What is the third estate.” ‘What is the third estate’ was a political pamphlet which was written in January 1798 shortly before the “outbreak of the French Revolution".
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