WORLD HISTORY

EMERGENCE OF USA

HOW DID THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION INFLUENCE THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Middle class, urban workers, rural peasants. Made up 98% of the population. Had to pay ALL the taxes
A
1st Estate
B
2nd Estate
C
3rd Estate
D
Estate System
Explanation: 

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: -The third estate, which was made up of the lower-class citizens, the common people, middle-lower class peasants, anyone that wasn’t a noble or a clergyman, was furious.

Detailed explanation-3: -The people who comprised the Third Estate were big businessmen merchants lawyers peasants artisans small peasants landless labour and servants. 2. These were 95 percent of the population. They had to pay taxes to the state.

Detailed explanation-4: -During the French revolution, the French society was divided into three estates. The peasants belong to the third estate and have to pay all the taxes, the third estate constituted 97% of the population out of which most of them were peasants (About 90%).

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