King Louis XVI, who was the ruler at the time, was a main contributor to these problems that led France to its downfall. The country had a massive lack of resources and food, which led King Louis XVI to borrow more money than he could afford, thus putting the country in immense debt. Despite the very visible crisis overthrowing the country, the king was incapable of accepting his mistakes and refused to change his ways. He maintained the unjust voting system, known as the Estates-General, and worsened the taxing system in order to pay off his debts. The people, especially those of the Third Estate, were clearly angry and dissatisfied with the state of the country, which led them seek out a movement for what was right.
Also the 3rd Estate peoples were fighting for justice because they were the people who suffered the most pain and lived the poverty life. The French revolution would not have happened unless the king kept and used his power carefully and handling economic, social, and political situations instead of
It started with the Tennis Court Oath. The third estate declared themselves a group called The National Assembly and they had a meeting in a tennis court making an oath to stick together until they achieved their goal. They kept meetings going on and sometimes they had violent rebellions to show the king they were not satisfied. This group went to Bastille to try to get weapons. Then the Great Fear took place where the revolutionary ideas were spreading and bringing fear all around Europe.
Napoleon rooted out corruption, the downside of this France was always at war. Napoleon fought for land and France never stopped warring he wanted to take over Brittan, but it was just out of reach for him. So, he tried to invade Russia with six thousand men, Russia retreated but while burning Frances crops as they left, with this loss to Napoleon he slowly fell off his pedestal as
The first and most obvious cause to the French Revolution was the royal family themselves. During the period before the revolution the royal family was known for their extravagance, for throwing parties when their people were starving and couldn’t afford bread. Another contributing to the rebellion and revolution were the Class System called the Privileged Estates. France was severely in debt at that time, banks couldn’t give people who needed money because they didn’t have any to give, even with the high taxes.
Though the beginning of French revolution was just a movement for government reforms, but later it twisted ferocious that leaded to the abolition of monarchy and execution of King Louis XVI. To resolve the monarch’s financial crisis, the estate general was called by King Louis XVI on May, 1789. The member of the third estate made their own national assembly fearing to bear the financial burden, and pledged Tennis Court Oath, and decided to remain there until a new constitution has been made. In addition, July 14, 1789, angry people of France, saw bastille a place to vent their frustration and marquis De Launay along with his troop found no option else then to surrender to the mob. After coming to know about the fall of the Bastille, King Louis XVI removed the imperial troops from the French capital and brought back finance minister Jacques Necker
In this play, The Witches come up with prophecies and tells Macbeth he will eventually become king. Due to him believing in the Witches’ prophecies he then kills Duncan so he can take the throne for himself. Macbeth then feels guilty and paranoid. Due to him being paranoid he had to take away many more lives so he can feel safe in his throne. Based on an analysis of the play, the Witches are responsible for Macbeth’s downfall in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
Andrew Jackson was a bad president because of the reasons I explained in this essay. He did many things that were disrespectful to other cultures, he made the executive branch have too much power, he made the Native Americans walk the trail of tears and many died on the
Due to the lavish life of the Monarchy, an increase in taxes was placed on the Third Estate which created more difficulties for them as they were already struggling to survive. Marie Antoinette was not well liked as she only focused on being a figure of authority. In October 1779, women protested at the Palace of Versailles against high prices of bread and other goods. Marie was loathed as her response to the peoples struggle was “Qu’ils mangent de la brioche”- let them eat cake. The royals were captured and imprisoned by the people.
There was no more clergy or monarchy and this completely changed the way of life in France, especially for the common people. This event also inspired other people in Europe to rise up against their monarchies and fight for equality. This revolution changed France forever. Knowing the factors that caused it to happen at that specific time, may help me understand the revolution on a much deeper level and understand how those same factors could possibly influence a similar revolution in modern day society. Aims To prove that due to the poverty rate at this time, the King’s inexperience with leading the
since the revolution had many enemies and few friends peasants were forced to fight and this displeased them. before the revolution the catholic church had a lot of say in the government and a lot of power afterwards some of their power was revoked making it possible to have other religions in france which pissed off the catholic church. with the revolution brought equal rights to every one if that were lost there would be no point in the committee of public safety and it would just be disbanded. to protect the revolution would definitely come before protecting the people. robespierre was basically a dictator after an amount of time and was not thoroughly protecting the people 's rights so he got his head cut off the committee of public safety’s main goal was to protect the revolution even if effected both sides
The American revolution all started because of taxes. The colonist got really mad at the British for taxing all of their important goods. The british always treated the colonist poorly since they came and invaded their homes. By this time the british were sick and tired of the colonists so they started a war.
Over time the plebeians slowly developed debt from the rich, debtor class (Morey). And with situations there the plebeian could not afford to pay for this debt they were arrested, put in dungeons, and even made into slaves. We learn from Morey that the harsh law of debt made it hard for the plebeians to get out of the debt. With any culture we can understand the frustration of not being able to eliminate the growing debt the have. It is important to not that with prior wars, Rome had acquired new land from its conquests, It would be often be distributed unevenly and often the patricians would act as though they personally owned the land and collected debt on the land and put it towards their own wealth instead of the state (Morey).
On the other hand, the government had reasons to why they needed to put down the rebellion. One of the reasons behind why the government battled against the rebellions was because they felt as though the farmer had bad intentions and were attempting to gain more power. Also, they were simply trying to shield the courthouses from any sorts of destruction. As a result, some rebellions, unfortunately, were killed or wounded. However, I would still consider them to be on the wrong side since they were basically taking money from individuals until they didn 't have anything left.
Although any of the treaties passed Parliament, but one that did was called the Olive Branch Petition. When the petition was brought to King George, he was very angered; moreover, the colonists believed that his taxes were unfair. He then declared soon after that all colonists to be traitors and should be put to death posthaste. Tensions had been growing for years between the two countries, but the King’s decision to list all colonists’ traitors angered them so much they decided to create their own kind of government. This scared Britain to the point of attempting