French+Revolution

Summary: We think it began because the monarchy became too controlling and the people living in France disagreed with what the rulers were deciding. The different estates were creating more and more laws that the French citizens had to follow that they disagreed with. The monarchy were contorlling people's beliefs and ideas as well as taking over land.

CCQ to Suzanne's Summary: I think you had the summary right on the nose, and the distribution of wealth was the sole reason the peasants revolted. I liked how you mentioned that the bourgeois class was the support of the other two classes, even though they had the least. I think you could have added in how they revolted to make it stronger. Overall, I think your summary was direct and full of the facts.

The inequity of the 3 estate system aka "The Old Regime" - The first and second estate were the clergy and nobles who were in control and ordered the third estate to do whatever they wanted. The first estate includes priests, bishops, nuns, and monks. The third estate was filled with the businessowners and merchants. To move up in estates, one needs to become a clergyman by going the process of being ordained - studying. To keep the third estate from moving up to the first estate, they made schools (where one needs to learn to be a clergyman) very expensive. The second estate is nobles, which people are born into and they are not necessarily rich. The second estate does not work, their money comes from the taxes that the third estate pays. The population is 97% third estate, and 3% first and second estate. It is inequity because the first and second estate control the govt. and obtain more votes because they out number the third estate even though the population favors the third.

How the French Revolution began: The French Revolution began because the rich people in the third estate saw opportunity when the poor people in the third estate were unable to afford even a loaf of bread. The rich people spoke to the poor people and influenced them to take over the first and second estate by klilling them. The emotions and anger that the third estate (rich and poor) felt allowed them to kill the other estates and revolt together.

CCQ on Who's Good and Bad: I think the good guys are the third estate, even though they killed hundreds of thousands of people. They only revolted because they felt they were mistreated by the first and second estate. Therefore, i think the third estate was the good guys because they fought for what they believed was right.



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Congress of Vienna: It was an international meeting that was held to restore Europe after the fall of Napoleon. It was held in Vienna, Austria from September 1814 to June 1815. The purpose of the meeting was to make a new balance of power that could maintain the peace. Austria, Great Britain, Russia, and Prussia made the big decisions. These decisions included; taking away from France all of the land Napoleon had conquered, France was now under the rule of Louis XVIII, Britain had control of colonial territories and the seas, Switzerland was made neutral, Norway and Sweden were joined by one ruler, and more. The meeting held was trying to preserve peace, and balance power, and they were successful because the peace in Europe went undisturbed for about 40 years.