The French Revolution

1. Many people in France were critical of the clergy and the nobility because they had privileges that the third estate could not. The clergy, nobility, and the king were the richest. The clergy and the nobility did not have to pay taxes and they were also the only members in society who could not hold positions of importance such as officers in the army. 

2. A French peasant might have grumbled about in 1789 is the high taxes, the food prices got high, they were forced to do military service, they could not hunt or fish on nobles' estates, and peasants had to use the lord's mill,  oven and wine press, and pay for them.

3.  Looking at Source A, the point I think the cartoonist was making was that the peasants hope for a better change than having to serve the upper classes. They don't want to be on the feet of the feudal lords and the clergy. The cartoonist is trying to say that the peasants want to be doing things they thing is better for everyone.

4. The author of Source B describes the lives of French peasants by how the taxes were killing the peasants and being more poor by not having to give what the taxes want. Even though the peasants complain, they have to find a way to pay their taxes by giving away their animals and other foods.

5. By studying Sources A, B, and C, these sources does explain why poor people in France resented the rich because they didn't like how each estate had their own thing especially when the first and second estate were rich and the third estate were poor and paid higher taxes.

6. The person that would be most influenced by his words is John Locke, because they both agree with each other that people should be equal. People should be treated by rights and not by being on the knees of the powerful people.

7. The pamphlet in Source D was banned in 1775 because the top estates like the king, clergy, and the nobility didn't want people to know. They were afraid that the people would go against them and they would lose their power.