USA HISTORY

MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following believed social position must depend on merit?
A
Middle class
B
Nobility
C
Workers
D
Peasants
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Middle Class were educated and believed that no group in the society should be privileged by birth. Rather a person’s social position must depend on his merit. Was this answer helpful?

Detailed explanation-2: -End to privileges: Rather, a person’s social position must depend on his merit. These ideas envisaging a society based on freedom and equal laws and opportunities for all, were put forward by philosophers such as John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau.

Detailed explanation-3: -social status, also called status, the relative rank that an individual holds, with attendant rights, duties, and lifestyle, in a social hierarchy based upon honour or prestige.

Detailed explanation-4: -Complete answer:The eighteenth century witnessed the emergence of the middle class in France who were the change-makers from the third estate. They earned their wealth through an overseas trade and by manufacturing goods such as woollen and silk textiles that were further exported or bought by the rich class.

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