Why did the peasants protest?

Answer 1

the peasants revolt happened because the supply of workers had decreased due to the black death. This meant that the peasants who worked for the king should have earned double the money since they were doing double the amount of work. According to the King, it didn't work like that. However hard they worked, they would only receive the money for one persons work.

Answer 2

I had to do an essya about the reasons... I'll do the whole essay, some of it might not make sense, we had sources that we used to help us. I'll do the key points as well

Reasons for the Peasants Revolt~

key points~

~they thought it unfair of the poll tax

~they were afraid that the landlords would lower their higher wages.

~the powerful barons took charge because the king who was 14 was young.

~there are obviously more others and more detailed if you want to read the essay ;P

Peasants Revolt

In source A, John Wycliffe said 'Lords do wrong to poor men by unreasonable taxes…' which shows that the peasants revolted because they had no money left so they were in a worse state anyway so it wouldn't matter if they didn't do well in the revolt because their lives couldn't get any worse.

In source B, it shows that the peasants threw the tax collector out when he came to see why they didn't pay the poll tax, this shows that the peasants couldn't pay it because they didn't have enough money so they threw the tax collector out. Even when King Richard II changed the poll tax, they still couldn't pay it and remained badly treating the tax collectors. Also, the prices had risen since the Black Death so this made the peasants very poor with nothing to eat so they suffered.

Another reason that the peasants made the revolt was because the Black Prince died and Edward III had to leave the crown to his 10 year old grandson, the most powerful barons took charge and they began to take advantage of the situation which made the peasants (who already hated them) made the peasants hate the barons more. This law was to stop the peasants getting anymore pay rises and was set by the king.

The Peasants found it unfair that they had to pay the same amount of tax as the rich lords because the tax was very high to them and they couldn't pay it but the rich lords thought the tax was nothing and though it was fair because it was cheap and they could pay it so the peasants were in trouble. They were starving because the 50 years war ended which had used a lot of money so they needed money so the 14 year old king raised the taxes and then made them do a poll tax. After the Black Death, the peasants could make their landlord higher their wages because they needed the peasants but then, the king passed the law of the statute of labourers which meant that the landlords couldn't higher their wages and had to have the same amount as before.

In source C, it shows that another reason the peasants made the revolt was because of the Statute of Labourers which means that they had to be obliged to take employment for the salary and wages they used to be paid in the place they were in the 20th year of the King's reign which was 1346, and if they didn't accept that, they had to be punished so the peasants had no choice and they had no freedom or otherwise they'd be punished by imprisonment.

Source D shows us that the people didn't think the king was strong and they thought him weak because he was so young. Because the king was young, the barons took advantage which made the peasants hate them more. Also, the people might think that the king wasn't good because he might make the wrong decisions and he's also an easy target in battle because he was so young and weak. He was weak and his advisors were useless.

Answer 3

Because people were arupid and didnt understamd the history of the past revolutions that have happned throughtout history

Answer 4

this because they be tricked by king richard II who delibaretly lied on purpose to stop the rioting in the city which was done the peasants.

Answer 5

The Poll Tax

Answer 6

watt tyler died

Answer 7

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