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Revolution in France Page 21-25 Notes


 * [[image:The_Estates_Meet.png width="397" height="216"]]<- This picture is when the Estates meet **

<- This picture is showing The Tennis Court Oath -The nobles and clergy welcomed the king's decision to call an Estates General. -The nobles and clergy intended to use it to block his plans to tax them. -People thought they could do so because of the voting system used by the Estates General. -The Estates General met whenever the king wanted to consult it, but this wasn't often. -It had been made up of around 750 members, about 250 from each of the three estates. -The third estate complained that this voting system was unfair. If used it again in 1789, the nobles and clergy would be able to out-vote the third estate two to one. -In December 1788 the king reluctantly agreed to the first of these demands. -The government was bankrupt by now, because it couldn't pay all the interest it owed on its debts. -A new finance minister, Jacques Necker, advised him to double the third estate. He hoped that the Estates General itself would decide to give every number one vote each, and then vote for new taxes. -In a countryside a different kind of crisis was developing: mass hunger. -This food crisis was caused by freak weather. On July 1788 a massive hailstorm had destroyed cornfields, vegetable plots, orchards and vineyards all over central France. -As a result, the harvest in 1788 was very poor. -Unemployment, added to hunger, led to riots and strikes in many parts of the country. -With hunger and unemployment spreading, elections for the Estates General were held in spring 1789. -As well as electing deputies to speak for them, voters were asked to draw up lists of changes that they wanted the Estates General to discuss with the king. -Over 60,000 of these 'lists of complaints' were drawn up, and they showed that millions of French people wanted major changes. -Over a thousand deputies met in the largest hall in Versailles at the first meeting of the Estates General. -After long speeches by the King and his chief ministers, the three estates were told to split up and carry on the meeting in separate halls. -The third estate deputies were unhappy with this order. -King Louis angrily ordered a Royal Session of the Estates General. He intended to warn the third estate not to defy him any further. -King Louis, however, was losing control of events at Versailles for, on 19 June, the clergy decided to join the third estate. -This angered and excited the deputies of the third estate. They feared that Louis was going to break up their assembly by force. -When the king held his Royal Session on 23 June, and ordered them to meet in their separate estates, they refused to move. -Louis could have ordered his soldiers to make them leave. But, faced with such determination, he gave in to them. -On 27 June he ordered the nobles and clergy to join them in a single assembly. Thus, the National Assembly became France's legal parliament. Cheering crowds let off fireworks when they heard the decision. -To many people at the time, these events seemed like a revolution.
 * T****he Estates General**
 * The Voting System**
 * The Food Crisis**
 * The complaints lists**
 * The Estates meet**
 * The Tennis Court Oath**

Awesome Questions 1-2 Page 26-27 1. Who disliked These things || (Third Estate) || 2. The Commoners were the people who disliked these kinds. So, the Third estate didn't have power to do these things.
 * || Things that people disliked || Kinds of people
 * Society || -The third estate didn’t have privilege. || The Commoner
 * Taxation || -The clergy and nobles were exempt from many kinds of taxes. || The Third Estate ||
 * Feudal Rights and dues || -They have to pay money for anything. || The Commoner ||
 * Law || -The law was in injustice for the French people. || The Commoner ||
 * Government || -The Commoner didn’t like the government since noble and clergy out weight the Commoners. || The Commoner ||