French Revolution
The French Revolution
The French Revolution was one of the most significant turning points in French history. It changed France completely, and brought a lot of positive results to France, even there were some negative results as well. Abolishing Feudalism is addressed during the National Assembly’s Decree, which is described in document 1. It attempts to make everyone pay taxes, doesn't matter what estate you are. However, it also gives people equal rights to work in different positions and dignities. In document 2, The Declaration of the Right s of Man gives everybody the freedom of speech, equality in law, and proportional taxation. Document 3 is a French political cartoon, “Patience, My Lord, Your Turn is Coming”. In this cartoon, a lady who seems like someone from the Church, which is the first estate, is waiting to be squeezed and turn skinny. This symbolizes that her wealth and power would be taken, and there would be more equality in the society. In document 5, we could see that the national Convention’s Law of the Maximum fixes the highest price for prime necessities, and persons who sell higher than the maximum of the price will need to pay fine.
One of the causes of the French Revolution was the unfair tax system --- Only the third estate, which was the poorest one, needed to pay the tax. However, throughout the revolution, the tax system changed into everyone needed to pay tax, doesn’t matter what estate you are, everyone pay the same, therefore, it was extremely hard for the third estate. Apparently, even the taxation has been changed, that wasn’t fair enough, and in document 2, we could see that Declaration of the Rights of Man fixed the tax into proportional taxation. In the other hand, the government started to pay attention to the equal rights. As a result, people could all get a work. By looking at document 3, we see that in order to achieve the real equality, the first estate’s wealth and power are getting taken, instead, all the other
The French Revolution was one of the most significant turning points in French history. It changed France completely, and brought a lot of positive results to France, even there were some negative results as well. Abolishing Feudalism is addressed during the National Assembly’s Decree, which is described in document 1. It attempts to make everyone pay taxes, doesn't matter what estate you are. However, it also gives people equal rights to work in different positions and dignities. In document 2, The Declaration of the Right s of Man gives everybody the freedom of speech, equality in law, and proportional taxation. Document 3 is a French political cartoon, “Patience, My Lord, Your Turn is Coming”. In this cartoon, a lady who seems like someone from the Church, which is the first estate, is waiting to be squeezed and turn skinny. This symbolizes that her wealth and power would be taken, and there would be more equality in the society. In document 5, we could see that the national Convention’s Law of the Maximum fixes the highest price for prime necessities, and persons who sell higher than the maximum of the price will need to pay fine.
One of the causes of the French Revolution was the unfair tax system --- Only the third estate, which was the poorest one, needed to pay the tax. However, throughout the revolution, the tax system changed into everyone needed to pay tax, doesn’t matter what estate you are, everyone pay the same, therefore, it was extremely hard for the third estate. Apparently, even the taxation has been changed, that wasn’t fair enough, and in document 2, we could see that Declaration of the Rights of Man fixed the tax into proportional taxation. In the other hand, the government started to pay attention to the equal rights. As a result, people could all get a work. By looking at document 3, we see that in order to achieve the real equality, the first estate’s wealth and power are getting taken, instead, all the other