The Three Estates
What is the first estate?
What is clergy. Wealthy church workers that did not pay taxes and were 1/2% of the population.
What is the third estate unhappy about?
What is unfair taxes and being politically powerless.
How did King Louis the sixteenth solve the Financial Crisis?
What is the Estate General?
Who was the king of France in 1789?
Answer is king Louis 16th.
On July 14, 1789, this event happened when an angry mob looking for weapons attacked a medieval castle and prison.
What is the Storming of the Bastille?
What is the second Estate?
What is nobility. Landowners who did not pay taxes and opposed absolutism.
What is the second estate unhappy about?
They were unhappy because they did not like absolutism and their economic advantages were being abolished.
Why did the peasants think so poorly about the Nobles?
What is no taxes for nobles?
Who was King Louis the 16th financial advisor
Jacques Necker
Frustrated by unfair treatment, delegates from the Third Estate separated from the assembly to form this.
What is the National Assembly?
What was the third estate?
It was split in three parts: The Bourgeoisie, Peasants, and City Workers. They did not own land and paid all the taxes.
What is the first estate unhappy about?
They were unhappy because lower estates were eroding their privileges and pressuring political change.
Where did each Representative meet to figure out the fiscal crisis?
What is Versailles?
What building got stormed on july 14th 1789?
What is the bastile
3rd Estate Representatives gathered on an indoor sports court to promise they would not separate until France had a constitution.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
What percent of the population was the third estate?
What is 98%
Who wants to protect the church's power and wealth?
Who is the Clergy?
Why was King Louis the sixteenth mad at the Third Estate?
The Third Estate declared themselves the "National Assembly".
Where did King louis and his wife live.
What is the Versailles palace
King Louis XVI called representatives from each estate in 1789 to solve France's economic crisis.
What is the Estates-General?
What percent of the land did the first estate own?
What is 10%
Used by the 3 estates to communicate complaints and hopes to the king
What is cahiers?
Why was the Tennis Court Oath so important?
It declared that political power came from the people, not the King.
Why did the Bastille get stormed?
A mob thought there was weapons inside.
Convicted of treason by the National Convention and sentenced to death, this event officially brought an absolute end to France's old monarchy.
What is the execution of King Louis XVI?