InNo+RyanC2013+09.03.2010

> > **People wanted to change the way france was run because the difference between the life style of the third estate and the second and first estate was too big.** > > **2.c** > **3.c** > **4.b** > **5.a** >
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 * 1) **Look at your completed table. Choose from it at least one reason why many French people wanted to change the way France was run.**
 * 1) **E, B, G, A, I, C, D, H, F**
 * 1) **1.a**
 * 1) **I think that the main reason the government was unpopular was because they thought that the King held too much power. This is big factor in the hatred towards the government because it made people feel that they had no control of their lives. It also lead the people to blame most things on the King because he had all the power.**
 * 1) **If Louis had married Marie Antoinette I think that they would have still been unpopular because Marie Antoinette was only a small reason for them to despise the government. The main reason was Louis bad ruling and**

toc =Notes=

** Estates Generals **

 * The last Estates General was in 1614, which contained 250 members from each estate, each estate had only one vote.
 * In 1789 the third estate complained that the voting system was unfair and the nobles and clergies would out vote them 2 to 1.
 * The King agreed to their request of doubling their numbers, because by then his country was bankrupt.
 * The new finance minster, Jacques Necker, hoped that the Estates members would give every member one vote, and vote for new taxes.

 **Food Crisis (1788)**


 * A massive hailstorm and draught cause famine in the country side of France.
 * After the hailstorm and draught there was the coldest winter France ever experienced.
 * This froze rivers (stopped windmills) and blocked roads preventing food from reaching markets.
 * When the snow thawed the water flooded huge areas of farmland.
 * Due to the merciless weather the price of bread raised substantially.
 * Many families spent all their money on the purchase of bread and left them no money to buy other needs.
 * Factories that produced these "other needs" could not function without income and therefore lots of people lost work as factories shut down.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">This lead to many riots and strikes.

Complaints List

 * The election for the Estates Generals were organized in 1789.
 * Deputies were assigned and voters were asked to draw up a list that they wanted the Estate Generals to discuss with the King.
 * Over 60,000 "Complaint Lists" were drawn up.
 * Most demands included the getting rid of some feudal rights and lessening tithes and dues.
 * The "Complaint Lists" created great excitement amongst the people of France.


 * ==<span style="font-family: Arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The first meeting took place on May 5,1789. ==
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">All deputies meet in the Great Hall, where the King gave a speech and told the three Estates to each go into separate halls.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The third estate was unhappy with because this mean that each estate would get a vote and the nobles and clergies could outvote them.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The third estate refused to go into separate halls and demanded that the nobles and clergies join them in a national assembly.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The nobles and clergies refused, so the third estate gave them an ultimatum that if they did not accept then the third estate would go on without them.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">King Louis was angered by this defiance and ordered a Royal Session.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">June 19, 1789 the clergies decided to join the third estate.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">When they arrived at the hall they found its doors locked and guarded by soldiers, inside was being prepared for the King’s Royal Session.

<span style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 11.0pt .5in; text-autospace: none;">** Tennis Court Oath **

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The third estate thought that King Louis was going to break up their assembly by force and so they hid in the nearest tennis court building to hide from the rain.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The third estate took an oath in the Tennis Court saying that they would carry on with the meeting until they had changed the way France was governed.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">When King Louis held his Royal Assembly and commanded the Estates to go to their separate halls the third estate didn’t leave.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">King Louis didn’t remove them by force instead he gave in to their determination.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">On June 27, 1789 the three estates came together to form the “National Assembly”, France’s Legal Parliament
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">This was the first step to their revolution.

=Question=

Why wouldn't King Louis just remove them from the halls? <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">