EMERGENCE OF USA
HOW DID THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION INFLUENCE THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Stay on the Court until a new constitution was written
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Create a plan to kill the King
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Abandon the assembly, and declare war on the King
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Side with the members of the 1st and 2nd Estate, therefore giving in and paying the taxes
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Detailed explanation-1: -Finding themselves locked out of their usual meeting hall at Versailles on June 20 and thinking that the king was forcing them to disband, they moved to a nearby indoor tennis court (salle du jeu de paume). There they took an oath never to separate until a written constitution had been established for France.
Detailed explanation-2: -Finally the Third Estate asked the First and Second Estates to join them in a single assembly. The Commons not only demanded greater power but also usurped the power of the other two Estates and confronted the King. On 17 June 1789, without royal authority, the National Assembly was declared.
Detailed explanation-3: -Description. On 17 June, the deputies of the Third Estate, locked out of the Estates–General meeting hall in Versailles, convened in an empty tennis court, where they swore an oath.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Tennis Court Oath was a pledge taken by Third Estate deputies to the Estates-General. It was sworn in a Versailles tennis court on June 20th 1789. 2. After days of disputes over voting procedures, the king scheduled a séance royale for June 23rd.
Detailed explanation-5: -In Versailles, France, the deputies of the Third Estate, which represent commoners and the lower clergy, meet on the Jeu de Paume, an indoor tennis court, in defiance of King Louis XVI’s order to disperse.