A Growing Middle Class Envisages an End to Privileges

In France, In the past, had peasants and workers participated in revolts against increasing taxes and food scarcity

• True

• False

The pesants who revolted in the past, had the means and programmes to carry out full-scale measures that would bring about a change in the social and economic order.

• True

• False

Revolt and planning for the revolt was left to those groups within the third estate ______

• who had become prosperous and had access to education and new ideas.

• which is carried out by military or security forces against their commanders.

• angry women

• all of the above

The eighteenth century witnessed the emergence of social groups, termed the middle class, ___________________

• who earned their wealth through an expanding overseas trade

• from the manufacture of goods such as woollen and silk textiles

• From wollen and silk textiles that were exported or bought by the richer members of society.

In addition to merchants and manufacturers, the third estate included professions such as _______

• lawyers

• administrative officials.

• doctors

• beaucrats

The professionals in the third estate were educated and believed that no group in society should be privileged by birth

• True

• False

The third estate believed that a person’s social position must depend on his merit.

• True

• False

These ideas envisaging a society based on freedom and equal laws and opportunities for all, were put forward by philosophers such as _________

• John Locke

• Jean Jacques Rousseau

• Jean-Paul Sartre

• Jacques Derrida

John Locke wrote a book called:

• Two Treatises of Government

• The Social Contract

• A Discourse on Inequality

• A Treatise on Tolerance

Locke agreed with the doctrine of the divine and absolute right

• True

• False