EMERGENCE OF USA
HOW DID THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION INFLUENCE THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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It consisted of the peasantry
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The first and second estate out numbered them in terms of population
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It included the middle class, peasants and urban workers
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It had the right to tax peasants for its profits
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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: -What Is the Third Estate? (French: Qu’est-ce que le Tiers-État?) is a political pamphlet written in January 1789, shortly before the outbreak of the French Revolution, by the French writer and clergyman Abbé Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (1748–1836).
Detailed explanation-3: -The Third Estate At the top were the bourgeoisie (middle class) made up of bankers, merchants, lawyers, doctors, etc. Bulk of the estate was the rural peasants.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.