THAT'S CALLED HAVING YOUR CAKE AND EATING IT TOO

THE FRENCH CLASSES

• French society was divided into 3 classes
• The Clergy, the First Estate, made up 130,000 of 28 million people
• The Nobility, the Second Estate, made up of 300,000 people
• The Third estate, which includes everyone else, from "middle class" to beggars

THE CLERGY

• Also known as the First Estate, the Clergy was mostly made up of most of the top members of the church
• The church owned 10% of the nation's land, extracting substantial amounts of wealth in the form of tithes and ecclesiastical fees
• Paid few taxes despite being rather elite

THE NOBILITY

• The Second Estate controlled about 30% of the country's land, and retained ancient rights on much of the rest of it
• Unlike the Clergy, the Nobility were spread out among much of the other administrative positions throughout the military, judicial, and church positions
• With a hierarchical structure, wealth separated the high from the low nobility

THE THIRD ESTATE

• Included everyone else
• Manufacturing, commerce, and finance accounted for most of their wealth
• Wealthy commoners owned nearly a third of the land

WOMEN IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

• The largest event involving women occurred on October 5, 1789
• It involved thousands of women from the marketplace marching 12 miles to Versailles, where they bursted in on the nationally assembly exclaiming, "The point is we want some bread!"
• Another time when women took on a role in the revolution was when many working class and middle class women asserted their right to bear arms in efforts to defend the revolution

WESTERN DOMINATION IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

• As France went through their revolution, the ideas of mass participation in political life evolved along with the radicalization of democratic tradition inherited from England and America
• This inspired other revolutions in Latin America and political reformation in Africa
• Reformations such as these would eventually lead to the emigration of many Eastern- Asians to the Western Hemisphere

AMERICA, AND ITS CLASSES

• While there wasn't an extremely clear structure of social classes, some people were easily separated based on wealth, opinion, and the ownership of slaves
• Many people to the north were believed to be elite and executive, while the southern slave owners were thought to be "set in there ways" and "less than" the northerners due to their slight lacking in political power
• Slave states counted three-fifths of their slave population to add to their congressional representation

WESTERN DOMINATION OF AMERICA

• The American Constitution is thought to be one of the most influential documents when it comes to the creation of a government
• Many other countries throughout time have developed their constitutions from America such as those of France and several Latin American countries
• The American Revolution also triggered the eventual shift of population from Africa for the much needed slaves and Eastern Asians for workers in the future

WOMEN OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

• Women played a key role in prewar boycotts and the formation of charitable organizations during the war
• While many women helped out during the war as nurses, others joined the army disguised as men

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