Timeline
Cause
War broke out between the Catholic League and the Huguenots in 1562 and continued until 1598. Political unrest between the Huguenots and the powerful Guise family led to the death of many Huguenots, marking the beginning of the Wars of Religion.
Effect
1. Stronger, further centralized state with a larger, more effective and more intrusive administration.
2. Abolition of special fiscal privileges, seigneur dues owed by peasants to lords, internal tariffs, and the establishment of uniform tax system based in principle on one’s income.
3. Creation and extension of new civil rights:
a. equality before the law
b. careers open to talent
c. participation in elections or certain government positions based on property qualifications
4. Changes in ideas and political culture:
a. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, popular sovereignty, democratic, republicanism
b. Nationalism
c. decline in religiosity, in the influence and authority of the church
d. formation of a revolutionary tradition centered on the belief that revolution was a means for bringing progressive change and further extension of popular participation and popular sovereignty.
2. Abolition of special fiscal privileges, seigneur dues owed by peasants to lords, internal tariffs, and the establishment of uniform tax system based in principle on one’s income.
3. Creation and extension of new civil rights:
a. equality before the law
b. careers open to talent
c. participation in elections or certain government positions based on property qualifications
4. Changes in ideas and political culture:
a. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, popular sovereignty, democratic, republicanism
b. Nationalism
c. decline in religiosity, in the influence and authority of the church
d. formation of a revolutionary tradition centered on the belief that revolution was a means for bringing progressive change and further extension of popular participation and popular sovereignty.
Impact
Social Impact
-Changed social structure beginning with the feudal system and monarchy
-Caused widespread reform in other monarchies
-Gave the people and established a system for maintaining
-People were able to criticize the government more freely
-Women's role changed
-Changed social structure beginning with the feudal system and monarchy
-Caused widespread reform in other monarchies
-Gave the people and established a system for maintaining
-People were able to criticize the government more freely
-Women's role changed
Economical Impact
-King Louis XVI bankrupt
-Raise funds by taxing the wealthy and the clergy
-Widespread hunger and poverty
-Louix XIV defective foreign policy weakened the economic condition of France
Global Impact
-Major impact on Europe and the New World
-Paved the way for modern democracy
-Conflict between the Monarchy and the nobility
-Impulse for reform intensifies political conflicts
-Major impact on Europe and the New World
-Paved the way for modern democracy
-Conflict between the Monarchy and the nobility
-Impulse for reform intensifies political conflicts
Gains and losses
Gains
-The National Assembly also issued the Declaration of the Rights of Man
gave many citizens a taste of liberty, equality, and power
-the necessity of economic planning and a greater equality between the rich and the poor.
-The non-aristocratic members of the Third Estate now represented 98 percent of the people but could still be outvoted by the other two bodies.
-The National Assembly also issued the Declaration of the Rights of Man
gave many citizens a taste of liberty, equality, and power
-the necessity of economic planning and a greater equality between the rich and the poor.
-The non-aristocratic members of the Third Estate now represented 98 percent of the people but could still be outvoted by the other two bodies.
Losses
-lost support in the United States because many U.S. politicians wanted to remain neutral.
-Monarchy government
-Lost 40,000 due to murder and assassinations
-Lost their king due to execution
-Monarchy government
-Lost 40,000 due to murder and assassinations
-Lost their king due to execution