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Wilmar Martinez
Martin
European history
11/26/2013
French Revolution compare and Contrast Essay
Throughout the history of people living on the face of the world, there happens to be
disagreements which lead to war. There are many types of war and many causes of war but the
main war we are talking about is revolutionary wars. Revolutionary wars are very important for
the country that is fighting for their freedom. One of the bloodiest and most chaotic revolutionary
wars in the history has to be the French revolution.
The French revolution was a time where horror rained over the French people. This
revolution was caused by 2 main causes. The first cause was social differences. The French
society was divided into 3 estates. The first estate was the clergy (church Supremes) with only
1% of the population. The second was the nobles (the enlightened tinkers) with 2% of the
populations. The third was the low class (the poor) with 97 % of the whole population.
The second main cause was economic failure in the French nation. The king was being
generous with the American Revolution. The king of France sent soldiers to help the Americans.
After the revolution, the French nation had donated too much money for the revolution and was
falling into a depression. The French people were getting tired of the king and queens acting.
The king and queen knew that their peasants were living so bad but still held very expensive

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parties. And them knowing that while they have parties their people are robbing and fighting for
a piece of loaf. This angered the French population and caused the French revolution.
A revolution in the United States would not be very likely; there arent any problematic
reasons to have a revolution.