Causes of French Revolution

Some of the causes of the French Revolution were the American Revolution, poor leadership, finacial problems within the country, and the most important social inequality. I belive that of all the causes social inequality was the major reason. The country of France consisted of three estates or social casts. The first consisted of clergy. The clergy were exempt from having to pay taxes and owned ten percent of the land. The second estste was comprised of the nobles. they owned 25-30 percent of all the land. They also recieved tax exemptions because they were a crucial role in society. The final and third estate were the commoners. Within the commoners there were three tiers the bourgeoisie, the workers, and the peasants. Unlike the workers and peasant the bourgeoisie's had money and steady jobs. These people were also major fans of the enlightenment era with Locke and Rousseau. At the very bottom of the tiers workers and peasants were poor and in constant starvation. In addition the thrid estate people had to pay taxes. they never even got it back because half of it went to paying of the debt of the country. The enlightenmetn era helped to insire the french third estate people to revolt against the royals. they became furious with being treated not equally and having Marie Antonette spend any money that ever did actually come in on lavish parties and such. Therefore because of the inequalities in society the people became enraged and that i believe was the biggest cause of the French Revolution.

In our country we are supposed to be under the assupmtion that all men are created equal. This theory was laid down by our forfathers and we must respect that. However looking in our past starting with slavery and to present day men have not been equal. Actually most of the time equal is not the case. Even now we see people in the news not getting a job because of the color of their skin or even now because of their gender. Our declaration states that we should not have to face these obsticles yet they are presistent. So in short I believe that we are not all created very equal and in society there are still differences based on gender and skin color.