Table of Contents
- 1 Why did French peasants lead revolts against the nobles?
- 2 Why were the people of France angry at the nobility?
- 3 What started the great fear?
- 4 How were peasants treated before the French Revolution?
- 5 What did the peasants want in the French Revolution?
- 6 Why did the peasants burn the feudal documents?
Why did French peasants lead revolts against the nobles?
What caused French peasants to revolt against nobles? The terrible famine triggered the peasants to revolt. They were starving and unemployed. The peasants were angered and rallied against the nobles.
Why were the people of France angry at the nobility?
They paid most of the taxes collected by the government but were generally looked down upon by the nobility. They resented the power of the Church and the nobility. By 1789, the estates system had begun to anger the citizens of the third estate as they resented their position within French society.
What started the great fear?
The Great Fear (in French, Grande Peur) was a wave of peasant riots and violence that swept through France in July and August 1789. These riots were sparked by economic concerns, rural panic and the power of rumour.
Why did the peasants revolt?
Peasants’ Revolt, also called Wat Tyler’s Rebellion, (1381), first great popular rebellion in English history. Its immediate cause was the imposition of the unpopular poll tax of 1380, which brought to a head the economic discontent that had been growing since the middle of the century.
What did peasants do in the French revolution?
Most peasants worked the land as feudal tenants or sharecroppers and were required to pay a range of taxes, tithes and feudal dues. 3. A much smaller section of the Third Estate were skilled and unskilled urban workers, living in cities like Paris.
How were peasants treated before the French Revolution?
What did the peasants want in the French Revolution?
The peasants, many of whom owned land, had attained an improved standard of living and education and wanted to get rid of the last vestiges of feudalism so as to acquire the full rights of landowners and to be free to increase their holdings.
Why did the peasants burn the feudal documents?
The peasants burned the feudal documents because the documents meant that the peasants could only ever be peasants and not work their way up in society.