MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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A religious leader promotes laws that are based on his religion’s sacred texts.
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A king makes gradual changes to transition his country toward democracy.
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A military leader takes control over a country’s government and launches a series of wars.
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A group of poor citizens attacks a state legislature and establishes its own government.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The causes of the French Revolution can be narrowed to five main factors: the Estate System, absolutism, Enlightenment ideas, food shortages, and the American Revolution. The Estate System placed people into groups based on birth and was known as the Ancien Regime.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Storming of the Bastille in Paris. This event is the start of the French Revolution.
Detailed explanation-3: -The sans-culottes (French: [sɑ̃kylɔt], literally ‘without breeches’) were the common people of the lower classes in late 18th-century France, a great many of whom became radical and militant partisans of the French Revolution in response to their poor quality of life under the Ancien Régime.
Detailed explanation-4: -Revolution, most peasants were free. The vast majority of peasants owned plots which were too small to support a family, and rented additional land. As a result, most of them were poor and only a few in each community could afford to own a plough team.