Estates System

Question 1

3 etsates

Answer 1

Clergy
Nobles
Peasants and merchants

Question 2

3 groups of the 3rd estate

Answer 2

Bourgeoisie
Urban population
Peasants

Question 3

Bourgeoisie

Answer 3

Middle class of merchants doctors and lawyers etc
Wanted to be treated like nobles
8% of the 3rd estate

Question 4

Urban population

Answer 4

Craftspeople shopkeepers and workers struggling to survive in the city
Includes San culottes with Ty out breeches
Partisan radicals of urban background turned the tide of the revolution

Question 5

Peasants

Answer 5

75-80% of the population
Farmers many of whom didn’t own land and paid nobles