When the Third Estate was locked out of the Estates General, they pledged never to disband until a new constitution was created. This event is known as:

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A	Women’s March on Versailles
B	Reign of Terror
C	The Great Fear
D	Tennis Court Oath

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Tennis Court Oath, French Serment du Jeu de Paume, (June 20, 1789), dramatic act of defiance by representatives of the nonprivileged classes of the French nation (the Third Estate) during the meeting of the Estates-General (traditional assembly) at the beginning of the French Revolution.

Detailed explanation-2: -20 June 1789 They were excluded from their regular meeting place by King Louis XVI and met instead at a nearby indoor tennis court. Here they pledged themselves to create a written constitution for France; by 1791 they would have one.

Detailed explanation-3: -The oath they took was: “not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require until the constitution of the Kingdom is established."

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