The French Revolution

1) Many people in France would be critical of the nobles, the King and the clergy because first off they were treated as underclassman and didn't get as much idependance, fairness and equality as the nobles, the King ad the clergy. Second, the people were forced to pay taxes during economic problems to support the King, nobles and church. The French people were not satisfied with the way their government and country was ruled because they felt as if they had no power at all.

2) The French peasants in 1789 might have grumbled about paying taxes and being forced to do military service. Also they were being treated unfairly by the government.

3) Source A shows a peasant carrying someone from the clergy and a noble on his back. This picture has many meanings but one interpretation I had of it was that the peasant had to support all the other "higher" classes and hoped for a revolution that would make him stop supporting them.

4) The author if source B describes the peasants' lives as being harsh and unfair. The peasants didn't have that much but still had to pay taxes in which were difficult for them to pay.

5) Yes. It shows that the poor had a hard lifestyle and what made it worse was that they had to pay to support the rich people. It shows that they want to go against the rich people anhd have a revolution to eliminate their harsh, unfair lives.

6) The peasants would be influenced by John Locke because they would like some of the ideas he came up with like equality, fairness and control over picking their rulers. The peasants didn't like their form of government and would rather have a democracy in France. With a democracy, the peasants would live easier lives.

7) It was banned by the government and higher authority because they didn't want the peasants to revolt against them. Since a majority of France's population at the time were peasants, the high authorities would be outnumbered if the peasants were ever to revolt. It was also banned because the government wanted their rules to be followed and they didn't want the peasants to form a new type of government.