EMERGENCE OF USA
HOW DID THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION INFLUENCE THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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King Louis XVI forced all members of the Third Estate to work at Versailles.
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King Louis XVI outlawed all philosophers in France.
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King Louis XVI ignored the Third Estate’s votes.
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King Louis XVI invaded Russia.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which of the following is a reason that the Third Estate was angry with King Louis XVI? King Louis XVI forced all members of the Third Estate to work at Versailles.
Detailed explanation-2: -The reason why the Third Estate was so unhappy was because they had 95% of the people which were peasants and they were treated poorly and overlooked by the two other estates. The first example of the popular protest in the French Revolution was when the peasants stormed the Bastille and took it apart.
Detailed explanation-3: -The people of the Third Estate revolted and put the French Revolution into action because after King Louis 16th called the Estates General for the purpose of raising taxes, the First and Second Estates (that is, the nobility and the clergy) voted together to levy the new taxes on the common people of the Third Estate.
Detailed explanation-4: -By 1789, the estates system had begun to anger the citizens of the third estate as they resented their position within French society. The third estate was forced to pay heavy taxed while the other two did not and many in the peasant class felt as though they were being crushed by the clergy and nobility.
Detailed explanation-5: -One of the first issues that came up at the Estates General was how they would vote. The king said that each estate would vote as a body (each estate would get 1 vote). The members of the Third Estate did not like this. It meant that they could always be outvoted by the much smaller First and Second Estates.