their position of wealth. They nobles believed that their noble birth’ set them apart from the rest of society.’ However‚ the nobility were also dissatisfied under the ancien regime‚ where they had little‚ yet still more then the bourgeois‚ influence in politics. Although the upper clergy enjoyed many privileges‚ including being exempt from paying taxes‚ owned about 10 per cent of the land‚ and received their wealth from the land they owned and the collection of the tithes. Yet‚ the lower clergy did not
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Goal 1 & 2: The Nation’s Early Beginnings (1789-1840) 1. Who was the first President? 2. What is a precedent? 3. What group did Washington create to advise him? 4. What two important pieces of legislation did the 1st Congress pass? 5. Who wanted to create a national bank? 6. What powers would be used to create a national bank? 7. How did the U.S. react to the latest British and French war? 8. What precedent for future Presidents did Washington set at his retirement? 9. What two things did
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The author of the Bill of Rights is President James Madison‚in despite of the fact that when he wrote the Bill of Rights in 1789 he wasn’t president yet.James Madison wrote the Bill of Rights in 1789 because he wanted better constitutional protection for individual liberties.James Madison thought that the passing of the Bill of Rights in the House was entirely unnecessary and referred to it as the "nauseous project of amendments."Also‚when James Madison rose to his feet on June 8‚1789 and put forward
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How useful is the term ‘early modern’ to describe the period c.1500-c.1789? In tackling this question it should first be asserted that these dates are commonly known to be the end of the Middles Ages (1500) and the beginning of the French Revolution (1789.) To determine whether this period characterises the term ‘early modern’‚ it must be more substantial than a set of dates‚ factors of a imperial‚ cultural‚ religious‚ political and economic nature must be investigated. This will discern if
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2/25/2014 French Revolution Question #3: Identify the major social groups in France on the eve of the 1789 Revolution. Assess the extent to which their aspirations were achieved in the period from the meeting of the Estates-General (May 1789) to the declaration of the republic. (September 1792). During the time of the French Revolution there were three major social groups. The first estate consisted of the clergy‚ the second estate consisted of the nobility‚ and the third estate consisted
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By 1789‚ the strict social caste of the French Old Regime was disintegrating due to rising opposition. This was fueled by the persuasive‚ well-publicised criticism of the monarchy and Old Regime by French philosophes particularly during the era of Enlightenment‚ and by 1789 a fiscal crisis was well-developed and aggravated the lower classes. Eventually‚ these middle-class Enlightened thinkers and lower class impoverished peasants would united in their discontent of the Old Regime‚ and ultimately
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division into three estates with different rights and duties‚ produced a clear situation of injustice with poverty for the greater part of the people and the extreme wealth for just a few. 1 To what extent were poverty and prosperity causes of the 1789 French Revolution? To a great extent because the prosperity of the bourgeois encouraged the poverty‚ peasants‚ to make justice for themselves by making a revolution against the authorities. The first and second estates had several privileges and it
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How Serious Was the Radical Threat Facing Pitt In The Period 1789-1801? The French revolution broke out in 1789‚ and while at first Britain was pleased and welcomed the changes that the revolution brought to France (i.e. the new constitutional monarchy mirrored Britain’s political system in many ways.) Pitt and his government began to become worried when the revolution in France stepped up a gear and became more extreme‚ they obviously didn’t want a repeat of the French experience in Britain. The
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The major social groups in France on the eve of the revolution consisted of the first estate‚ second estate‚ and the third estate. The first estate was made up of the clergy‚ the second estate was made up of the nobility‚ and the third estate was made up of the commoners. The commoners’ aspiration was to try and gain more power and freedom while the clergy and the nobility were trying the hold on to their power and not lose any. The first estate‚ which was made up of the clergy‚ had the aspiration
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Alcohol: The Social Implications of the Rise and Consumption Early Modern Europe 1400-1789 Carissa Carlisle His352 Meadows "Swill"‚ "grog"‚ "firewater"‚ and "liquid bread". There are many different terms associated with the word "alcohol". Alcohol has revolved and evolved around people ’s lives for thousands of years. For early modern Europeans‚ alcohol had served several purposes‚ such as medicine by means of brandy as well as foodstuff‚ and as to why the drink had been the go-to drink
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