MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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the king’s efforts to tax the Second Estate
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the outrage of the peasant class over food shortages
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the king’s plan to increase government debt
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the Third Estate’s dissatisfaction with its power and status
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Detailed explanation-1: -The political and financial situation in France had grown rather bleak, forcing Louis XVI to summon the Estates General. This assembly was composed of three estates – the clergy, nobility and commoners – who had the power to decide on the levying of new taxes and to undertake reforms in the country.
Detailed explanation-2: -Voting in the Estates General in the past had been conducted according to the principle that each estate had one vote. But members of the third Estate demanded that each member would have one vote. 3. When the King rejected this proposal, the members of the Third Estate walked out of the assembly in protest.
Detailed explanation-3: -Louis XVI called an assembly of Estates General to pass proposals for new taxes on 5th May 1789.
Detailed explanation-4: -In desperation at the financial crisis, King Louis XVI summoned a so-called Estates General in 1789 to approve new taxation. This was a representative body that had not met since 1614, but once it had been called, it developed a momentum of its own.