MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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The National Assembly consisted mostly of members of the third estate, while the Estates General consisted of the first, second, and third estates.
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The National Assembly consisted mostly of members of the first estate, while the Estates General consisted of the first, second, and third estates.
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The National Assembly consisted of the first and second estates, while the Estates General consisted mostly of the third estate.
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The National Assembly consisted of the second and third estates, while the Estates General consisted mostly of the first estate.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The lay lords and the ecclesiastical lords (bishops and other high clergy) who made up the Estates General were not elected by their peers, but directly chosen and summoned by the king.
Detailed explanation-2: -Answer and Explanation: The Third Estate formed the National Assembly because they realized that the other two estates, the nobles and the clergy, would combine interests in the Estates General to vote that the Third Estate should shoulder the greatest tax burden for Louis XVI’s new taxes.
Detailed explanation-3: -King Louis XVI, aware of the injustices of the French tax policy, tried to reform the tax code to make it more fair, but was repeatedly thwarted by the overrepresented nobles and clergy. This angered the Third Estate, which refused to vote in the Estates General, and formed instead the National Assembly.
Detailed explanation-4: -The National Assembly was primarily different from the Estates-General in that it was composed of the French revolutionaries, while the Estates-General was supposed to be a broad representation of the French people themselves.