USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Third Estate was made up of everyone else, from peasant farmers to the bourgeoisie – the wealthy business class. While the Second Estate was only 1% of the total population of France, the Third Estate was 96%, and had none of the rights and priviliges of the other two estates.

Detailed explanation-2: -– Many of the members of the bourgeoisie had their own set of grievances because they were often excluded from the social and political privileges monopolized by the nobles.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Third Estate itself was divided between the rising middle class known as the bourgeoisie and the increasingly impoverished working class that came to be known as sans-culottes.

Detailed explanation-4: -The 18th century witnessed the emergence of social groups, termed the middle class, who earned their wealth through an expanding overseas trade and form the manufacture of goods such as woollen and silk textiles that were either exported or bought by the richer members of society.