Question

Who were members of the new middle class?

merchants, knights, and bakers
shopkeepers, clergy, and merchants
tradesmen, merchants, and shopkeepers
tradesmen, monks, and squires

Answer 1

There were several members of the middle class. Merchants were workers who may have produced and sold their own goods and were part of the middle class. Also Bakers, Shopkeepers and tradesmen were all members of the middle class. Being part of the middle class means that they made enough money to live and then some but weren't super rich and Monks, Squires, Clergy, Merchants, Tradesmen and Shopkeepers were all members of the middle class.

Answer 2

Answer:

tradesmen, merchants, and shopkeepers

Explanation:

The term middle class has a long history and has had many, sometimes even contradictory, meanings. Once it was already defined as an intermediate class between the nobility and the peasants in the continent of Europe. While the nobility held the land, the peasantry worked in these lands, and a new middle class emerged, the so-called "new bourgeoisie" (literally the "city walkers") exercising mercantile functions in the urban environment.  The first references to the expression middle class appeared in the late eighteenth century. This class had tradesmen, merchants, and shopkeepers as members.